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The Goleta ""Matilde"" was captured at sea by British cruisers and adjudicated at a court established at Havana under international anti-slave trade treaties. The image is of a picture of the first page of the court’s register of ""Liberated Africans"" taken from the ""Matilde"". The register was kept as a formal record of emancipation that helped protect the individual from subsequent re-enslavement. The image is reproduced courtesy of the British National Archives.
Metadata
Year
1837
Source
British National Archives, Foreign Office, ser. 313, vol. 61, p. 231.
Language
English
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Voyage ID = 1631 - Matilde, 1837