Excerpt from Reasons for Establishing a Registry of Slaves in the British Colonies: Being a Report of a Committee of the African Institution Such being the pernicious consequences which would certainly flow from a contraband slave trade in the. British colonies, the important practical question is, whether Parliament can and ought to do more at present than has been already done for the prevention of so great a mischief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.