Great Britain and the King of Lagos sign a treaty intended to abolish the Nigerian slave trade

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Great Britain and the King of Lagos sign a treaty intended to abolish the Nigerian slave trade. (By Brian Bockelman)

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Peter Stearns, ed., The Encyclopedia of World History (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001), 570.

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