Jose Pizarro, for the Kingdom of Spain, and Henry Wellesley, for the United Kingdom—without a war—sign the Treaty of Madrid prohibiting the further introduction of slaves into Cuba, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, thus banning the international slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean.
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References:
Anglo-Spanish Anti-Slave trade Treaties etc.htm
www.pdavis.nl/Treaty_1817.htm
CHRONOLOGY: Who banned slavery when? | Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSEIC16869120070321
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