The International Beginnings of the Congo Free State

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1894 - History - 95 pages
Original ed. issued as no. 11-12 of Institutional and economic history, which forms the 12th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.
 

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Page 40 - All flags, without distinction of nationality, shall have free access to the whole of the coast-line of the territories above enumerated, to the rivers there running into the sea, to all the waters of the Congo and its affluents, including the lakes, and to all the ports situate on the banks of...
Page 14 - May 1820, and that, from and after that period, it shall not be lawful for any of the subjects of the crown of Spain to purchase slaves, or to carry on the slave trade, on any part of the coast of Africa, upon any pretext or in any manner whatever...

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