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
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
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
Wilberforce puts forward his motion to end the slave trade citing examples of the cruel nature of the trade in all its manifestations, and the result of the motion, which was that… Keep reading
Speech against the emancipation of the slaves in the Caribbean, which would be harmful to the British economy, the slaves (for they wouldn’t know what to do with this freedom)
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
An account of the rebellion in St Domingo by the beaten French, from a translation. The pamphlet includes a condemnation of the revolt and a criticism of the antislavery movement in France… Keep reading
this proslavery tract has the author presenting his understanding of the different agendas of all those involved in the arguments for emancipation: ‘An able writer in Blackwoods Magazine has divided the… Keep reading
Resolutions adopted by the House of Commons to introduce reforms in the slave colonies, which are designed to make their lives ‘easier’, i.e. legalized marriage; time to cultivate their own plots of… Keep reading
A brief history of Europe’s involvement in the African slave trade, and the nature of slavery in the Caribbean, the study of African culture and customs, philosophical arguments against enslavement, condemnation and… Keep reading
Accounts of lectures given by committee members around the country, giving details for questions asked by members of the audience, numbers of attendees of meetings, etc. Dunstable, Sept 17th – My… Keep reading
Attached is the model of the ship with Africans in the hold. A report of the capture of a number of slave ships from Spain and France captured off the coast of… Keep reading
Report on the progress of the Quaker Mission in the Gambia, as well as reports of Africans receiving English lessons in Sheffield, and the continued travels of Hannah Kilham, and bible passages… Keep reading
A letter expressing concern about the proposal to abolish slavery in the West Indies – fear of loss of labour, criticism of Wilberforce, inability of African Caribbeans to self govern.
First edition – see also B/16/8, which is second edition – this includes an accusation that the French anti slavery group Amis des Noirs (Friends of the Blacks) as instigators of the… Keep reading
A series of letter written by an unknown author arguing for immediate emancipation, hypocrisy of abolishing slave trade and not slavery itself, objections of substituting East India sugar for West India sugar,… Keep reading
Speech by Stephen on the Slave Registry Bill, and the Assemblies in the Caribbean’s response to the Bill, and a defence of his friend Zachary Macaulay with regard to his dealings in… Keep reading
