Updates on progress of the campaign to end slavery in the Caribbean – disappointment that it isn’t going as quickly as the committee hoped; colonial reform; responses to the revolt in Demerara;… Keep reading
Quaker missionary reports that discuss plans for providing a Bible in African languages such as Wolof, and for creating settlements in West Africa. Description of the voyages and selections of the bible… Keep reading
Account of the inhabitants of Norwich’s involvement in the campaign for better conditions for the enslaved in the Caribbean, and details of petitions to Parliament
A series of letters first published in the Liverpool Mercury between James Cropper, a supporter of abolition and John Gladstone MP (who later became prime minister) and West Indies planter, each arguing… Keep reading
Full details of the trail of Rev. John Smith, a preacher in Demerara accused of inciting the enslaved workers to rebel – the evidence against him are his journal entries, that give… Keep reading