Excerpt from A View of the Present State of the African Slave Trade: Published by Direction of a Meeting Representing the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, &C A law dated November 1818, ostensibly designed to pre vent the slave trade, was promulgated by the government of the Netherlands. A treaty was concluded between England and Denmark in 1814, prohibiting the subjects of the latter kingdom from carrying on the slave trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.