Speech of the Rt. Hon. Viscount Palmerston
Subtitle: in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, May 19, 1841, on Lord Sandon's resolution, "That considering the efforts and sacrifices which Parliament and the country have made for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery ... this House is not prepared (especially with the present prospects of the supply of sugar from British possessions) to adopt the measure proposed by Her Majesty's government for the reduction of the duties on foreign sugar.".
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: J. Ridgway
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Sugar trade; Tariff on sugar; Slave trade
Notes: Caption title.

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.