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THE SLAVE-TRADE ABOLITION COMPACT between Mauritius and Madagascar, humbug to soldiers in Mauritius but a very real stroke of British policy to the Bourbon French, was made from Le Réduit, in defiance of the established principal Malagasy slave-agent Jean René at the port of Tamatave on the east coast of Madagascar, by his overlord, major slave-source, and under British urging his reluctant blood-brother, the Merina king Radama I inland at Tananarive.
… he remarked that this was the season when all slaves sold here during Autumn and Winter would be embarked and he hoped that Governor Farquhar was aware of it — lest he should suppose that any went from this at present which would give him much inconvenience. I promised to explain to Governor Hall. … Sergeant James Hastie, in conversation with Radama I, Tananarive, 1 January 1818
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Charles Greville, Greville’s England ed Christopher Hibbert, London, 1981, p. 119.
Charles Telfair, Some Account of the Present State of Slavery at Mauritius…, Port Louis, 1830, Appendix 34.
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Scarr, D. (1998). Madagascar Treaty and Military Eruptions 1817–20. In: Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26699-9_8
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