📅 15 June 1814
A royal decree barred Dutch ships from being equipped for the Atlantic slave trade. It followed British pressure and did not emancipate people already enslaved or end plantation slavery. Ending the...
📅 15 June 1814
William I issued a decree prohibiting Dutch ships from being equipped for the slave trade and barring the sale of Africans at Dutch possessions on the Guinea coast. This addressed the trade, not...
📅 13 August 1814
The Treaty of London referred to the Dutch decree against the trade and committed the Netherlands to prohibit its subjects from participating. International restrictions on trafficking did not...
📅 4 May 1818
The two states agreed on enforcement measures against slave trading by their subjects, including legal penalties and cooperation to prevent the use of their flags to protect trafficking. Enforcement...
