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A letter to his Royal Highness the duke of Gloucester, President of the African Institution, from Zachary Macaulay Esq. occasioned by a pamphlet lately published by Dr. Thorpe, late judge of the colony of Sierra Leone, entitles ‘A Letter to William Wilberforce

Reference: Binnsvol010-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 10 Author: MACAULEY (Zachary) Year: 1815
Macaulay is responding to a number of charges made by Dr Thorpe, accusing him of impropriety in his dealings in the colony of Sierra Leone. Thorpe had acquired a number of private… Keep reading
 MACAULEY (Zachary) 1815 64

A letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester..

Reference: Binnsvol032-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 32 Author: MACAULEY (Zachary) Year: 1815
MACAULEY (Zachary) 1815 25

A letter to William Wilberforce, vice president of the African Institution containing remarks on the reports of the Sierra Leone Company and African institution with hints respecting the means by which a universal abolition of the slave trade might be carried into effect, by Robert Thorpe Esq. chief justice of Sierra Leone and judge of the vice admiralty court in that colony (1815) A preface to the thid edition of a lettr to William Wilberforce

Reference: Binnsvol011-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 11 Author: WILBERFORCE (William) Year: 1815
A criticism of the African Institution by Thorpe, who argued that the slave trade was expanding in the colony, and not repressed; lack of progress and production, bad management, disregard of the… Keep reading
 WILBERFORCE (William) 1815 44

De la Traite et de L’Esclavage des noirs et des Blancs

Reference: Binnsvol020-009 Volume: BINNS VOL. 20 Author: GREGOIRE (Henri Count) Year: 1815
GREGOIRE (Henri Count) 1815 42

Perface the third edition of a Letter to William Wilberforce..

Reference: Binnsvol011-004 Volume: BINNS VOL. 11 Author: WILBERFORCE (William) Year: 1815
WILBERFORCE (William) 1815 15