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May 25, 2017

View of Auckland Harbor, New Zealand, From a Drawing by Major Stack, Taken during the Regatta of January, 1862: The Rage of the Maori War-Canoes, 1862

Suppression of the slave trade extended into all parts of the British Empire – including places as far as Auckland, New Zealand.
The Illustrated London News, 11 October 1862. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.

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