The slave trade and the origin of international human rights law

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Notes

Broadlands Manuscripts, University of Southampton, Palmerston papers, GC/RU/424, Russell to Palmerston, 24 September 1851. I am grateful to Peter Jones for drawing my attention to this reference in his forthcoming work on Russell and Palmerston's political relationship.

David Eltis, Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, 122.

Robin Law, ‘Abolition and imperialism: international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade’. In Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa and the Atlantic, edited by Derek R. Peterson, 150–74. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010.