Quintuple contract
An agreement between European powers that was signed in London on December 20, 1841 and dealt with aspects of the slave trade is referred to as a quintuple treaty, quintuple tract or five-power agreement . Even Prussia had joined the scheme.
This treaty, which was ratified by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, but not by France, established a reciprocal right to stop and search ships flying the flags of the contracting states for the purpose of suppressing the slave trade and confiscating slave ships in a certain sea area around Africa around. In place of Prussia, the German Reich entered into that treaty on March 29, 1879 . The Reichstag gave its approval on May 19, 1879.
The full name of the treaty is Treaty of London of 20 December 1841 for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade , in German: Treaty of London of 20 December 1841 for the suppression of the African slave trade .
literature
- Olof Berg: North America's position on the Quintuple Tractate of December 20, 1841. An illumination of the slave and trade relations in the United States as an attempt to comment on General Cass dd Paris February 13, 1842. Based on official data by Olof Berg, Swedish -Norwegian Consul. Königsberg 1842: Counts and Unzer.
- Olof Berg: Slavery, Maritime Domination and the Prussian State Newspaper. A supplement to my work "North America's Position on the Quintuple Treatise on December 20, 1841" . Koenigsberg 1843.
- Karl von Gareis : Today's international law and human trafficking, a treatise under international law at the same time edition of the German text of the treaties of December 20, 1841 and March 29, 1879 . Berlin 1879: Heymann.
