Bibliography 
The structure of this study rests for its foundation upon 
printed documents, chief of which are the official publications 
of the United States Government. The diplomatic corre- 
spondence of the period, which reveals the official attitude of 
the United States and Great Britain toward the questions 
which arose in regard to the British West Indies, is found in 
The American State Papers , Foreign Relations 1789-1828. 
Further correspondence dealing with this question is found in 
Senate Documents, 21 Congress, 2 Session, Number 20, and in 
Senate Documents, 22 Congress, 1 Session, Numbers 118 and 
132. The results of this diplomacy in the shape of treaties 
and conventions may be found in the standard compilation, 
William M. Molloy, Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, 
Protocols and Agreements between the United States of 
Aynerica and other Powers, 1776-1909. 
For a clear understanding of the motives back of the 
national legislation of the two countries in regard to the Brit- 
ish West India trade, the debates both in the American Con- 
gress and the British Parliament are indispensable. In the 
speeches delivered at the time of the enactment of the various 
laws may be discovered the national, sectional, or partisan 
spirit which influenced the final action of the respective gov- 
ernments. The debates in Congress until 1824 are found in 
what is commonly referred to as the Annals of Congress. 
Altho these are not contemporaneous records of the debates 
of the period reported verbatim, they are generally recognized 
as authentic and acceptable reports of the proceedings. Be- 
ginning December 6, 1824, and continuing thru the period 
covered by this essay, the debates are found in the Register of 
Debates in Congress, sometimes referred to as Congressional 
Debates. In this case the debates were reported contempo- 
raneously. A convenient collection compiled from the Annals 
of Congress and the Register of Debates is Thomas Hart Ben- 
ton, Abridgement of the Debates of Congress from 1789 to 
1856. Full reports of the speeches in both Houses of Parlia- 
ment are found in Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (2d 
series). The texts of the laws passed by the United States 
Government are found in Richard Peters, The Public Statutes 
(189) 
