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[Manuscript materials from Wilberforce House Museum, Hull], 1698-1861 1764-1827.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Slavery, abolition & social justice.
- Slavery, abolition & social justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833--Archives.
- Wilberforce, William.
- Abolitionists--Archives.
- Abolitionists.
- Slave trade.
- Enslaved persons--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- Plantations--Caribbean Area.
- Plantations.
- Slave records.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Caribbean Area.
- Place of Publication:
- 1698-1861
- Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2013.
- Summary:
- Electronic reproduction of the papers of William Wilberforce (1759-1833) and related slavery & anti-slavery materials from Wilberforce House, Hull. These include a slave trader's log-book of 1764 and original slave receipts and punishment records. There are substantial sets of plantation records relating to Jamaica, Barbados, Berbice and Demerara providing details of slaves and livestock. Also covered are full proceedings before the Privy Council on the subject of compulsory manumission in the colonies of Demerara and Berbice. The collection of pro- and anti-slavery ephemera features many items on the treatment of slaves, posters, illustrations, Sir James Edward Alexander's "Comparative slavery, or, A sketch of the present condition of Negroes under Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, American and British Masters" - an unpublished treatise of 1832 - as well as other items on Dutch Guiana, Surinam, Cuba, Brazil, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Santo Domingo, Trinidad, Louisiana, Tunis and politics in London.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by publisher.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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