Considérations importantes sur l’abolition générale de la traite des nègres, Adressées aux Négociateurs des Puissances continentales qui doivent assister au Congrès de Vienne. Par un Portugais.
A Paris: Bailleul; Goullet;, 1814. First edition. In later half leather. 31 p. . In fine condition.
This anonymous pamphlet criticizing the British position in the debate on the slave trade during the Vienna Congress, claiming that England uses abolition as a pretext to ruin the trade of other states.
The Vienna Congress took place 1814–15, following the defeat of Napoleonic France, participated by the representatives of all European powers and other stakeholders, to restore the political and constitutional landscape of Europe.
“The British Foreign Minister Lord Castlereagh, under pressure from the abolitionist movement in his home country, tried to convince the representatives of the other nations who had signed the Peace Treaty of Paris in May 1814—Great Britain, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal—to agree to the international abolition of the Atlantic slave trade”. Eventually, “[f]or the first time in history, the representatives of the principal European powers condemned the Atlantic slave trade as contrary to the principles of humanity in the 1815 Vienna Declaration”. (Weller, 2015)
Literature: Thomas Weller. ‘Vienna, 1815: First International Condemnation of the Slave Trade’, in Online Atlas on the History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights, edited by Fabian Klose, Marc Palen, Johannes Paulmann, and Andrew Thompson, 2015-12, urn:nbn:de:0159-20160905136 [2022-10-28].
Scarce pamphlet related to the debate on the slave trade at the Vienna Congress.
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