The Yale Law Journal

VOLUME
117
2007-2008
Forum

Correspondence

25 Feb 2008

The British judges carried on an active correspondence with the Foreign Office in London, with British colonial officials, foreign governments, and ships captains. Topics ranged from the mundane—illnesses, budgetary and administrative matters—to the profound, including reflections on the inhumanity of the slave trade.

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