Convention between the United States and other powers
Subtitle: slavery : signed at Geneva, September 25, 1926
Series: Treaty series -- no. 778; Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Slavery; Law and legislation; Slave trade
Other titles: Slavery
Work titles: Slavery Convention (1926)
Notes: French and English.

"Adherence advised by the Senate, with reservation, February 25, 1929. Adherence declared by the President, March 1, 1929. Declaration of adherence of the United States, deposited at Geneva, March 21, 1929. Proclaimed, March 23, 1929."

"The signatories of the Convention of Saint-Germain-in-Laye of 1919 to revise the General act of Berlin of 1885 and the General act and Declaration of Brussels of 1890 ... desiring to complete and extend the work accomplished" have, through their plenipotentiaries, made this Convention, which may be preliminary to a "general convention with regard to the slave trade". cf. p. 3, 9.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.