Excerpt from The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870 I desire to express my obligation to Dr. Albert Bush nell Hart, of Harvard University, at whose suggestion I began this work and by whose kind aid and encourage ment I have brought it to a close; also I have to thank the trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, whose appoint ment made it possible to test the conclusions of this study by the general principles laid down in German universities. 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.