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Abridgement of the minutes of the evidence, taken before a committee of the whole house, to whom it was referred to consider of the Slave Trade, 1790 (Part 2)

Reference: Binnsvol007-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 7 Author: I Year: 1790
Evidence provided by people involved in the slave trade of their experience and opinion (generally favourable and supportive) of acquisition of enslaved, methods they used to try and escape; illness among the… Keep reading
 I 1790 125

Adresse a l’assemblee nationale, pour l’abolition de la traite des noirs, pour la societe des Amis des Noirs de Paris (Fevrier 1790)

Reference: Binnsvol009-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 9 Author: Unknown Year: 1790
Unknown 1790 4

Discours sur La Traite des Noirs, par M. Petion de Villeneuve, member de l’Assemblee Nationale

Reference: Binnsvol009-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 9 Author: VILLENEUVE (Jerome) Year: 1790
VILLENEUVE (Jerome) 1790 43

Doubts on the abolition of the Slave Trade; by an Old Member of Parliament.(London 1790)

Reference: Binnsvol022-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 22 Author: Unknown Year: 1790
An examination of the negative results of the abolition of the slave trade for Britain from a political and economical standpoint and position of Britain as a world power and empire.
 Unknown 1790 65

Observations on the project for abolishing the slave trade, and on the reasonableness of attempting some practicable mode of relieving the Negroes

Reference: Binnsvol009-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 9 Author: Unknown Year: 1790
A proslavery tract that argues the Africans are better off being under the care of the British; that the abolition of the slave trade would not mean that the trade would end… Keep reading
 Unknown 1790 39

Speech of William Pinkney Esq. in the House of Delegates of Maryland at their session in November 1789 (Philadelphia 1789)

Reference: Binnsvol021-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 21 Author: PINKNEY (William) Year: 1790
Pinkney argues that the slaves in Maryland should be manumitted, which would ‘attach them to government…they are bound by gratitude, as well as by interest, to seek the welfare of that country… Keep reading
 PINKNEY (William) 1790 12

Unanswerable arguments against the abolition of the slave trade, with a defence of the proprietors of the British sugar colonies against certain malignant charges contained in letters published by a sailor and by Luffman, Newton, etc

Reference: Binnsvol006-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 6 Author: Unknown Year: 1790
remarks on the dispositions and characters of the African slaves and means suggested for the distribution of their labour; the regulation of their habitations, food, clothing and religious instruction; the accommodation of… Keep reading
 Unknown 1790 192