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The Colonies: General set comprises the papers which cannot be assigned to any specific colony, either because of subject matter or because of relationship to an overall corpus of material. The set includes a number of Select Committee Reports on general colonial policy. By far the greater portion of the set 7F 13 34 volumes out of 37 7F 13 comprises the colonial annual reports which were submitted to the House of Commons yearly from 1846 onwards. The list below provides a representative index to the topics covered in each report. Population 7F 13 marriages, births and deaths 7F 13 immigration. Legislation 7F 13 political affairs. Finance 7F 13 revenue and expenditure 7F 13 public debt 7F 13 taxes 7F 13 customs and excise 7F 13 banking. Land and property. Agriculture 7F 13 industries and manufactures 7F 13 employment. Transport and communications 7F 13 public works. Education 7F 13 poor law 7F 13 health. Crime 7F 13 police and prisons. Military and naval affairs. -- Publisher's catalogue.

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The material relating to the slave trade falls into three general categories: major reports from Select Committees, classified correspondence from British Commissioners, agents and Foreign Powers (including reports from naval officers) and, finally, general reports, correspondence and papers. The classified correspondence provides the official administrative and informatory papers on the extent and conditions of slavery, the slave trade, the efforts to abolish it and the measure of success achieved. Volumes detail Britain's efforts to curb slave trading in Africa and Asia and in the Caribbean and South America. The IUP subject set contains all the papers relating specifically to slavery and the slave trade in each of these categories in the order given, published chronologically. Vol 8, consisting of Instructions issued to Naval Officers engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, an important policy record, is the exception to this arrangement. Papers from the period covered which do not relate specifically to slavery but which contain some material on the subject, or which relate indirectly to slave trade (papers on the supply of Coolie and Indian labourers to the colonies) will be found in such subject sets as IUP Colonies General (e.g., Vol. 1), Africa (e.g., Vol. 5), West Indies, East Indies, etc. -- Publisher's catalogue.