Mixed Commission Court
A Mixed Commission Court was a joint court set up by the English government with either Spanish or Portuguese representation following treaties agreed in 1817.
By 1820 there were 6 courts:[1]
Courts
- Anglo-Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - after Brazilian independence in 1822 this became an Anglo-Brazilian court which operated until 1845[2]
- Anglo-Spanish court in Havana, Cuba
- Anglo-Dutch court in Surinam
- Anglo-Portuguese, Anglo-Spanish and Anglo-Dutch courts in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Free Town
The Vice Admiralty Court, Sierra Leone had been founded in 1807 following the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. This court was superseded by the Mixed Commission Court in 1817.[3]: 1125 The Court was located in a building in Gloucester Street previously used to house the Governor.[4]
References
- ^ Adderley, Rosanne Marion (2006). "New negroes from Africa" slave trade abolition and free African settlement in the nineteenth-century Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21827-8.
- ^ Davis, P. "Background". William Loney RN. P Davis. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ^ Helfman, Tara (2006). "The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade". Yale Law Journal. 115 (5): 1122–1156. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ Shreeve, Whittaker (18 June 1847). "African Trade, the Horrors of Slave Trade Aiding, Abetting etc". The South Australian: 4. Retrieved 6 September 2014.