3. c. 23) was a piece of British legislation that made engagement in the slave trade a felony.

The earlier Slave Trade Act 1807 merely imposed fines that were insufficient to deter entrepreneurs from engaging in such a profitable business.

The contexts in which it could be applied and how these sat within international criminal law gave rise to controversy.

[1] The first case brought under the act was that of Samuel Samo, who was tried by Chief Justice Robert Thorpe at the Vice-Admiralty Court in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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