Read the excerpt from the British East India Company s

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Read the excerpt from the British East India Company s proclamation on Indian slavery 1789 then answer the following question Proclamation The Governor General and Council having been informed that many Indians and some Europeans contrary to the laws and ordinances of this country and the dictates of humanity have been for a long time in the practice of purchasing or collecting the natives of this country of both sexes children as well as adults for the purpose of exporting them for sale as slaves in different parts of India and elsewhere it has been resolved by them the Governor General and Council to exert to the utmost extent the power and authority vested in them in order to prevent such practice in future and to deter by the most exemplary punishment those persons who are not to be otherwise restrained from committing the offence It is therefore hereby notified that if any person residing in the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court or in any respect subject to the authority of this Government be concerned in future directly or indirectly in the said inhuman and detestable trade he shall be prosecuted with the utmost rigour in the Supreme Court at the expense of the Company Britain s governor general in India is told to Prosecute anyone who purchases or transports slaves Allow adult slavery but end child slavery O Encourage the slave trade by tax it more effectively Allow the sale of Indian slaves in other British colonies