Message of the President of the United States: Transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House, of the 23d of December, 1848, the correspondence between G. W. Gordon and Gorham Parks with the Department of State, on the subject of the African slave trade

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Title: Message of the President of the United States
Subtitle: Transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House, of the 23d of December, 1848, the correspondence between G. W. Gordon and Gorham Parks with the Department of State, on the subject of the African slave trade
Alternative title: Correspondence between the consuls of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, &c., with the Secretary of State, on the subject of the African slave trade
Series: 30th Congress, Second Session: Executive Document No. 61. [House of Representatives]
Author: United States. President (1845-1849: Polk); Polk, James K., 1795-1849; United States. Dept. of State.; Gordon, George William, 1801-1877; Parks, Gorham, 1794-1877
Abstract: The U.S. Serial set is a specially bound, consecutively numbered version of all House and Senate reports and documents. Many, but not all, of the government documents in the Americas archive come originally from the U.S. Serial set, although were bound together at some later point into the collection that is now represented in this collection.
Description: U.S. Congressional publication. Documenting the illegal slave trade between Africa and Brazil, and involvement of American ships and slave-traders. 223 pp.
Citation: United States. President, Polk, James K., United States. Dept. of State., et al and . Message of the President of the United States, Transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House, of the 23d of December, 1848, the correspondence between G. W. Gordon and Gorham Parks with the Department of State, on the subject of the African slave trade. Government publications. 1849. From Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Americas collection, 1811-1920, MS 518. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/9248.

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