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An oration on the abolition of the Slave Trade: delivered..

Reference: Binnsvol033-006 Volume: BINNS VOL. 33 Author: WILLIAMS (Peter) Year: 1808
WILLIAMS (Peter) 1808 15

Considerations on the causes objects and consequences..

Reference: Binnsvol033-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 33 Author: ROSCOE (William) Year: 1808
ROSCOE (William) 1808 73

Remark on the proposals made to Great Britain for opening…

Reference: Binnsvol033-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 33 Author: ROSCOE (William) Year: 1808
ROSCOE (William) 1808 98

Substance of the report delivered by the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company to the general court of proprietors on Thursday 24th march 1808 (London 1808)

Reference: Binnsvol023-008 Volume: BINNS VOL. 23 Author: Unknown Year: 1808
Notice of the transfer of the colony from the company to the Crown, and the appointment of a new governor, details of new treaties made with neighbouring chiefs, progress reports of young… Keep reading
 Unknown 1808 9

The History of Barbados from the first discovery of the Island…

Reference: Suppvol249-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 249 Author: POYER (John) Year: 1808
POYER (John) 1808 364

The History of the Rise Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition.. Vol. 11.

Reference: Suppvol136-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 136 Author: CLARKSON (Thomas) Year: 1808
CLARKSON (Thomas) 1808 302

The History of the Rise Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition.. Vol. I.

Reference: Suppvol173-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 173 Author: CLARKSON (Thomas) Year: 1808
CLARKSON (Thomas) 1808 290

The History of the Rise Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition.. Vol. I.

Reference: Suppvol135-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 135 Author: CLARKSON (Thomas) Year: 1808
CLARKSON (Thomas) 1808 294

The History of the Rise Progress and Accomplishment.. Vol. II.

Reference: Suppvol174-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 174 Author: CLARKSON (Thomas) Year: 1808
CLARKSON (Thomas) 1808 304

Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade..

Reference: Suppvol250-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 250 Author: MONTGOMERY (James); GRAHAME (James); BENGER (E.) Year: 1809
MONTGOMERY (James); GRAHAME (James); BENGER (E.) 1809 92

Abstract of the Acts of Parliament for abolishing the Slave Trade.

Reference: Binnsvol044-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 44 Author: Unknown Year: 1810
Unknown 1810 22

An account of some recent transactions in the colony of Sierra Leone, with a few observations on the state of the African coast

Reference: Binnsvol011-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 11 Author: GRANT (John) Year: 1810
The author of this pamphlet was unable to take up his post of council member of Sierra Leone – it turned out that the governor had promised the position to a relative,… Keep reading
 GRANT (John) 1810 69

A letter to Henry Brougham Esq. M.P. on the subject of Reform..

Reference: Binnsvol033-004 Volume: BINNS VOL. 33 Author: ROSCOE (William) Year: 1811
ROSCOE (William) 1811 9

Report of the Committee of the African Institution read to the General meeting…

Reference: Suppvol124-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 124 Author: Unknown Year: 1811
Unknown 1811 29

Thirteenth Report of the Directors of the African Institution..

Reference: Suppvol125-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 125 Author: Unknown Year: 1811
Unknown 1811 67

The trials of the slave traders: Samuel Samo, Joseph Peters and William Tufft, tried in April and June 1812 before the Hon. Robert Thorpe LLD Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, with two letters on the slave trade

Reference: Binnsvol011-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 11 Author: TUFFT (William) Year: 1813
Details of trial of the above three men accused of slave trading, in direct violation of the act of parliament. Key point is that enslaved Africans were called as witnesses in these… Keep reading
 TUFFT (William) 1813 29

A letter to his Excellency Prince of Talleyrand Perigord, on the subject of the slave trade, by William Wilberforce Esq. M.P. (London 1814)

Reference: Binnsvol018-007 Volume: BINNS VOL. 18 Author: WILBERFORCE (William) Year: 1814
A plea by Wilberforce to the French ambassador to end the French slave trade, with an appendix of extracts of other authors, not advocates for the abolition of the slave trade.
 WILBERFORCE (William) 1814 43

Observations on the late treaty of peace with France; so far as it relates to the slave trade: in a letter to a friend

Reference: Binnsvol011-006 Volume: BINNS VOL. 11 Author: Unknown Year: 1814
Unknown 1814 12

The abolition of the Slave Trade A Poem…

Reference: Suppvol202-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 202 Author: MONTGOMERY (James) Year: 1814
MONTGOMERY (James) 1814 41

The History of Toussaint Louverture.

Reference: Suppvol172-004 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 172 Author: Unknown Year: 1814
Unknown 1814 51