AFRICA AND THE SLAVE TRADE
... I The select parliamentary committee on WeSt- ern Africa, begin their recently-issued reportiby explaining that their appointment originate'd in the discovery, in 1839, that foreign slave bhips 'were permitted to trade for goods at the British settlements on the Gold Coast; and in Dr. Mlad- den's report of the inquiry, whiich, on that dis- covery, he was deputed to make. Their report relates ...