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[Manuscript materials from the British Library relating to the slave trade], 1775-1856.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Slavery, abolition & social justice.
- Slavery, abolition & social justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--History--Sources.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--History--Sources.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slavery--Law and legislation--Great Britain--History--Sources.
- Slavery--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Abolitionists--Great Britain.
- Abolitionists.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain.
- Antislavery movements.
- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
- Slave trade--Africa, West.
- Slave trade.
- Slave traders--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Slave traders.
- Slave ships--Great Britain.
- Slave ships.
- Great Britain--Commerce.
- Great Britain.
- Enslaved persons--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
- Place of Publication:
- 1775-1856.
- Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2013.
- Summary:
- Electronic reproduction of manuscript materials from the British Library relating to abolition, slavery and the slave trade. Includes the following: West Africa 1, 1779-1784 and West Africa 2, 1779-1784 (an anonymous account, in two versions of different dates, of the society and trade of the Canary Islands and West Africa, with observations on the slave trade; Collections relating to the slave trade, 1775-1788 (consisting of evidence of merchants given in the years 1775-1788); Aberdeen papers. Vol. LXXXVII, 1829-1845 (correspondence of Lord Aberdeen during his second term of office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (consisting chiefly of Lord Aberdeen's 'private' or semi-official correspondence with British and foreign diplomats); Papers of Thomas Clarkson, Vol. 1, 17 June 1785-29 Dec. 1792 (relative to the transport of 'Negro settlers' from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Sierra Leone in 1791-1792 and the founding of the colony, of which Clarkson became first Governor); Liverpool papers, v. CCCXV (ff. 87). Letters and papers : slave trade, cf. 38416 ; 1811-1822. f. 11-33 (letters relating to the slave trade and the Congress of Vienna, 1815); Liverpool papers, v. CCXXVII, 1787-1823 (papers relating to the slave trade, consisting largely of letters to the 1st Earl of Liverpool, who was President of the Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations from 1786 to 1804. The names of the writers are given in the Index); Minute books of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1787-1788, 1788-1790, 1790-1819.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Includes materials by or about: John Clarkson, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, Granville Sharp, Joseph Hardcastle, Lord Liverpool, Zachary McCaulay, Lord Castlereagh, Samuel Hoare, William Dillwyn, James Phillips, Richard Phillips, Joseph Hooper, Joseph Woods, William Pitt the Younger, George Harrison, Charles James Fox, Robert Wilberforce, John Barton, John Lloyd.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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