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1804-Aug.-31

1804-Aug.-31: Secretary of State Lord Camden informed Jamaican authorities that Britain would not allow captives to be trafficked into any country not under…

1804-Aug.-31: Secretary of State Lord Camden informed Jamaican authorities that Britain would not allow captives to be trafficked into any country not under British possession. This decision effectively barred Haiti from the legal transatlantic slave trade while under Dessalines’s rule.

Source  ·  p. 81 Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 81