Short pamphlet detailing conditions under slavery and the system of manumission in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, described as "both a wise and merciful policy" (2). The pamphlet cites the Spanish Slave Code, as well as travel narratives and the British Commissioner in Havana on the legal practice of manumission. British anti-slavery societies petitioned in 1826 for a manumission scheme in the colonies, and the feasibility of the Spanish model was discussed in the British House of Commons in March 1828.