The Slavery and abolition collections 1700-1886.

Format:

Book

Series:

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--History.

Slavery.

Antislavery movements--History.

Antislavery movements.

Abolitionists--History.

Abolitionists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 manuscripts 37 items.)

Place of Publication:

1700-1886.

Summary:

This collection includes miscellaneous documents from 1700 to the late 19th century, including slave deeds, passes, certificates of registry, manumission papers, wills, appraisals of slaves, and speeches relating to slavery and its abolition, primarily in the Anglo-American colonies and the United States, as well as a few letters concerning the Amistad mutiny. It also contains correspondence by and about abolition leaders such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and William Lloyd Garrison. The bulk range of the collection is 1765-1886.

Contents:

Slavery

Abolition.

Notes:

Reproduction of the originals from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

OCLC:

607391268