Official letter of the Secretary of Marine and Overseas to the Captain of the schooner Tamega, going to Cabo Verde and the ports of the east coast of Africa, Mosamedes, Benguella, and Novo Redondo. The Captain is instructed to stop and search every ship on the high seas or in ports which he suspects of slave traffic, how to deal with their captains, how to go about freeing illegally transported slaves. Paragraph ten of the fifteen paragraphs refers to the treatment of Brazilian ships "since there is no treaty between Portugal and Brazil for the abolition of the slave traffic". In case he should stop a ship which upon boarding is found to be Brazilian, he is not only to apologize without engaging in search of the ship but is minutely instructed to have his apologies entered in the thus illegally searched ship's logbook. Paragraph four defines the purpose of this voyage as to "religiously see to it that the wicked slave traffic of Portuguese, British, and other merchant ships is stopped".
- Collection
- Brazil Miscellaneous Collections
- Format
- Correspondence Orders
- Place Discussed
- Brazil Angola Portugal
- Provider
- The New York Public Library
- Published in
- Angola
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- Source
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