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Records of the United States Diplomatic and Consular Posts in West Africa, 1856-1935

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2019

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The records described in this inventory belong to Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State. They are both complementary and supplementary to records in Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State. Both record groups contain communications and other papers transmitted between the Foreign Service posts and the State Department in Washington. In Record Group 45, Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, are materials dealing with the African slave trade and Negro colonization. Papers relating to the slave trade and its suppression are to be found in Record Group 21, Records of the District Courts of the United States; Record Group 48, General Records of the Department of the Interior; Record Group 60, General Records of the Department of Justice; and Record Group 118, Records of the United States Attorneys and Marshals.

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Research Article
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Africana Newsletter , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , 1964 , pp. 18 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1964

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page 18 note * This article is taken from a longer survey which appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Vol. II, No. 1 (December I960), Independence Issue, Ibadan University Press, Nigeria. E. J. Alagoa prepared the survey.

page 28 note 1 The documents are listed alphabetically by post and thereunder chronologically. Following each listing is the inventory entry number for the series in which the document occurs.

page 31 note 1 From a manual issued by the Bureau of Indexes and Archives, Department of State, 1924.