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PÍSANÉ PRÁVO VO VEĽKEJ BRITÁNII - READING LAW IN THE GB
(SEMINÁRNA PRÁCA Z ANGLICKÉHO JAZYKA PRE PRÁVNIKOV)
Michal Šintál I.ročník
Akademický rok 2008/2009
1. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SLAVE TRADE (1839-1865)
Great Britain relinquished her slave trade in 1807, and for the next sixty years Was largely occupied in the task of inducing other nations to make and to keep a similar renunciation. That her motives were disinterested can scarcely be questioned. There were large classes in this country which indirectly derived a profit from the slave trade, and the only people who had anything to gain from its suppression were the West Indian proprietors. Their interest was never a factor of importance in the struggle, and indeed as early as 1833, when they obtained a gift of twenty millions as the price of emancipation, it became an obstacle, as discouraging further sacrifices on behalf of the negroes; and this consideration contributed to influence the Government on the only occasion on which it may be thought to have gone back on its path the equalisation of the sugar duties in 1846. The struggle which Great Britain had so long maintained against the slave trade was now in some measure to meet with its reward; and, if Buxton had waited for a year or two before throwing in his lot with those who were already proclaiming the hopelessness of suppression, his book might not have been published. In that case forty-three British sailors would not have perished on the Niger, and future efforts would have been much less hampered by the delusion that to interfere with this traffic was, not only useless, but harmful. Buxton indeed had proposed not to withdraw, but temporarily at least to strengthen, the Preventive
PÍSANÉ PRÁVO VO VEĽKEJ BRITÁNII - READING LAW IN THE GB
(SEMINÁRNA PRÁCA Z ANGLICKÉHO JAZYKA PRE PRÁVNIKOV)
Michal Šintál I.ročník
Akademický rok 2008/2009
1. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SLAVE TRADE (1839-1865)
Great Britain relinquished her slave trade in 1807, and for the next sixty years Was largely occupied in the task of inducing other nations to make and to keep a similar renunciation. That her motives were disinterested can scarcely be questioned. There were large classes in this country which indirectly derived a profit from the slave trade, and the only people who had anything to gain from its suppression were the West Indian proprietors. Their interest was never a factor of importance in the struggle, and indeed as early as 1833, when they obtained a gift of twenty millions as the price of emancipation, it became an obstacle, as discouraging further sacrifices on behalf of the negroes; and this consideration contributed to influence the Government on the only occasion on which it may be thought to have gone back on its path the equalisation of the sugar duties in 1846. The struggle which Great Britain had so long maintained against the slave trade was now in some measure to meet with its reward; and, if Buxton had waited for a year or two before throwing in his lot with those who were already proclaiming the hopelessness of suppression, his book might not have been published. In that case forty-three British sailors would not have perished on the Niger, and future efforts would have been much less hampered by the delusion that to interfere with this traffic was, not only useless, but harmful. Buxton indeed had proposed not to withdraw, but temporarily at least to strengthen, the Preventive
Bibliography: Edwar Jenks - Husband and wife in the law - 1909 William Law Mathieson - Great Britain and the Slave Trade -1967 www.wikipedia.com www.yahoo.com