An address, & petition : to his Majesty, From Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Sheffield. To which is added a letter to Mr. Walker, and a letter to the editor of the Sheffield Register.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Society for Constitutional Information (Sheffield, England)

Series:

• Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Slavery--Early works to 1800.
• Slavery.
• Trials (Conspiracy)--Early works to 1800.
• Trials (Conspiracy).

Genre:

• Petitions.

Physical Description:

20 pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Sheffield : [publisher not identified], 1794.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• The petition is for the "total and unqualified abolition of slavery".
• The letter to Thomas Walker, "on his late trial for a conspiracy", is signed at end: "Signed, by order of a general meeting of the Friends of Justice, of Liberty, and of Humanity in Sheffield, Sheffield, April 7, 1794. W. Broomhead, Secretary to the Constitutional Society." - The letter to the printer of the Sheffield Register is signed: Aristocrat.
• Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T223307.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.