Statute 23 George II c.31
“1749-50”
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An act for extending and improving the trade to Africa · the statute of 23d George II, ch. 31
in the texts
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The 1749-50 British statute regulating trade to Africa, central to the legal analysis.
“An act for extending and improving the trade to Africa.
But the most distinct approbation given to slavery by the act, is implied in the twenty-eighth section, in these words:
The next statute, of which I find any trace, passed by Parliament, with any apparent view to countenance the slave trade, was the statute of 23d George II.