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- GLC#
- GLC00267.031
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- January 10,1818
- Author/Creator
- United States. Congress
- Title
- Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Message as relates to the introduction of slaves from Amelia Island.
- Pagination
- 5 p. : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
The report reflects the early distaste for the slave trade in the U.S. House Document 46, 15th Congress, 1st session. Accompanied with a bill supplementary to the act, to prohibit the importation of enslaved people into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States: passed 2d March 1807. Endpaper states: "The first copy of this report being incorrectly printed, is to be cancelled, and this copy substituted." First edition (thus).
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