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Slavery - Christian VII, King of Denmark. Forordning om Neger-Handelen. pp. 69-71 in: Kong Christian den Syvendes allernaadigste Forordninger og aabne Breve for Aar 1792. With royal woodcut signet on the title page. Copenhagen, P. M. Hopffner, 1793. 323 p., 6 pp. 21 x 17 cm. Modern leather binding in the style of the time with spine label and gilt spine. Original printing in the annual volume of the royal decrees, a separate printing can only be found in Copenhagen and Paris. - Hogg, The African Slave Trade and its Suppression 3165 - The world's first ban on the slave trade, issued on 16.III.1792. After a moratorium of ten years, no more Africans were to be enslaved and brought to the Danish West Indian colonies. The use of slaves already there and their descendants was not prohibited, and this was not lifted until 1848. Nevertheless, the edict was the starting signal for the end of the transatlantic slave trade. It was not until 1807 and 1808 that England and the United States followed suit, with other European countries joining in by 1817. - Some browning and spotting, about the first two thirds of the volume with tidemark in the binding. VAT: *
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Slavery - Christian VII, King of Denmark. Forordning om Neger-Handelen. pp. 69-71 in: Kong Christian den Syvendes allernaadigste Forordninger og aabne Breve for Aar 1792. With royal woodcut signet on the title page. Copenhagen, P. M. Hopffner, 1793. 323 p., 6 pp. 21 x 17 cm. Modern leather binding in the style of the time with spine label and gilt spine. Original printing in the annual volume of the royal decrees, a separate printing can only be found in Copenhagen and Paris. - Hogg, The African Slave Trade and its Suppression 3165 - The world's first ban on the slave trade, issued on 16.III.1792. After a moratorium of ten years, no more Africans were to be enslaved and brought to the Danish West Indian colonies. The use of slaves already there and their descendants was not prohibited, and this was not lifted until 1848. Nevertheless, the edict was the starting signal for the end of the transatlantic slave trade. It was not until 1807 and 1808 that England and the United States followed suit, with other European countries joining in by 1817. - Some browning and spotting, about the first two thirds of the volume with tidemark in the binding. VAT: *
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