An appeal to the people to take the campaign for emancipation into their own hands, appealing to the British sense of liberty and telling them to be vigilant and to abstain from… Keep reading
Details of a rebellion in Demerara in August 1823, and its violent suppression where the slaves, believing that they were to be freed, as well as responding to the increase of cruelty… Keep reading
Letters on the following topics: ? On the present treatment of slaves in the colonies ? Physical and moral condition ? The principles on which improvements should be founded… Keep reading
Progress Report of the current state of Sierra Leone and Gambia, one of the reports written by a female missionary who travelled to Africa, called Hannah Kilham. She talks about the settlements,… Keep reading
A war of words between Thomas Cooper and George Hibbert on the attempt by Hibbert to slander his character and good name – it appears that Cooper gave some evidence in a… Keep reading
A description of types of work, duties, methods of labour, free time, laws that govern the slaves; general treatment; conditions for emancipation: ‘If the mother be three degrees removed from the… Keep reading
A passionate and radical appeal for the immediate emancipation of the enslaved workers in the Caribbean by a female abolitionist: ‘Before we can have any rational hope of prevailing on our… Keep reading
An appeal for the emancipation of African Caribbeans in the British colonies from am moral and economic standpoint, citing the revolution in Haiti as an example of black self determination, and the… Keep reading
Taylor argues that emancipation is extremely beneficial to Africans and Britons, engendering peace, an end to corruption and end to suffering. Slavery benefits only a very small number of people, and Britain’s… Keep reading
