BINNS VOL. 16 - The Collection - Recovered Histories

Title	Author	Year	Page count
A particular account of the commencement and progress of the insurrection of the Negroes in St Domingo, which began August 1791, being a translation of the speech made to the national assembly 3rd November 1791 by the deputies from the General Assembly of the French part of St Domingo, 2nd edition, with notes and an appendix containing extracts from other authentic papers (London 1792 Reference: Binnsvol016-009 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1792 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	Unknown	1792	26
A summary view of the progress of reform in the slave colonies of Great Britain, since the 15th May 1823 Reference: Binnsvol016-011 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1828 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	Unknown	1828	5
An appeal to the British nation to think for themselves, instead of allowing Wilberforce, Buxton and others to think for them; with a true statement of the condition of the Negroes in Jamaica, second edition, by J Reed, as West India planter (Liverpool 1823) Reference: Binnsvol016-010 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: REED (J) Year: 1823 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	REED (J)	1823	16
An appeal, not to the government, but to the people of England on the subject of West Indian Slavery (London 1824) Reference: Binnsvol016-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824 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	Unknown	1824	12
An enquiry: which of the two parties is best entitled to freedom? The slave or the slave holder, from an impartial examination of the conduct of each party at the bar of public justice (London 1824) Reference: Binnsvol016-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824 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	Unknown	1824	14
Case of the Vigilante, a ship employed in the slave trade; with some reflections on that traffic (London 1823 Reference: Binnsvol016-015 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1823 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	Unknown	1823	8
Clarendon’s accurate and copious account of the debates of the house of Commons, on Wilberforce’s motion for an abolition of the slave trade April 1792 Reference: Binnsvol016-006 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: WILBERFORCE (William) Year: 1792 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	WILBERFORCE (William)	1792	25
Continuation of the appendix to the second report of the committee on African Instruction (London 1824 Reference: Binnsvol016-005 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824 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	Unknown	1824	14
Declaration of the objects of the Newcastle upon Tyne Society for promoting the Gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British Dominions (Newcastle upon Tyne 1823) Reference: Binnsvol016-014 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1823 A declaration of the formation of the Newcastle society with subscribers names.	Unknown	1823	6
Immediate not gradual abolition; or an inquiry into the shortest safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery, by Elizabeth Heyrick (?) (London 1824 Reference: Binnsvol016-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Elizabeth Heyrick Year: 1824 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	Elizabeth Heyrick	1824	28
Mr Alexander Barings’ speech in the House of Commons on Buxton’s motion for a resolution declaratory of slavery in the British colonies, being contrary to the English constitution and to Christianity. (London 1823) Reference: Binnsvol016-007 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: BARING (Alexander) Year: 1823 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)	BARING (Alexander)	1823	10
Report of the agency committee of the anti slavery society, established in June 1831, for the purpose of disseminating information by lectures on colonial slavery (London 1832) Reference: Binnsvol016-013 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1832 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	Unknown	1832	13
Report of the committee managing a fund raised by some friends for the purpose of promoting African instruction with an account of a visit to the Gambia and Sierra Leone (London 1822) Reference: Binnsvol016-016 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1822 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	Unknown	1822	36
Report of the Committee of the society for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British Dominions (London 1824) and proceedings of the first anniversary meeting of the Anti Slavery Society June 1824 Reference: Binnsvol016-004 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824 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	Unknown	1824	58
Second report of the committee managing a fund raised for the purpose of promoting African instruction, with an appendix (London 1824) Reference: Binnsvol016-008 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824 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	Unknown	1824	25
Thoughts upon Slavery by John Wesley (London 1774 Reference: Binnsvol016-012 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: WESLEY (John) Year: 1774 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	WESLEY (John)	1774	27

A particular account of the commencement and progress of the insurrection of the Negroes in St Domingo, which began August 1791, being a translation of the speech made to the national assembly 3rd November 1791 by the deputies from the General Assembly of the French part of St Domingo, 2nd edition, with notes and an appendix containing extracts from other authentic papers (London 1792

Reference: Binnsvol016-009 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1792

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

Unknown

1792

26

A summary view of the progress of reform in the slave colonies of Great Britain, since the 15th May 1823

Reference: Binnsvol016-011 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1828

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

Unknown

1828

5

An appeal to the British nation to think for themselves, instead of allowing Wilberforce, Buxton and others to think for them; with a true statement of the condition of the Negroes in Jamaica, second edition, by J Reed, as West India planter (Liverpool 1823)

Reference: Binnsvol016-010 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: REED (J) Year: 1823

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

REED (J)

1823

16

An appeal, not to the government, but to the people of England on the subject of West Indian Slavery (London 1824)

Reference: Binnsvol016-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824

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

Unknown

1824

12

An enquiry: which of the two parties is best entitled to freedom? The slave or the slave holder, from an impartial examination of the conduct of each party at the bar of public justice (London 1824)

Reference: Binnsvol016-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824

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

Unknown

1824

14

Case of the Vigilante, a ship employed in the slave trade; with some reflections on that traffic (London 1823

Reference: Binnsvol016-015 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1823

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

Unknown

1823

8

Clarendon’s accurate and copious account of the debates of the house of Commons, on Wilberforce’s motion for an abolition of the slave trade April 1792

Reference: Binnsvol016-006 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: WILBERFORCE (William) Year: 1792

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

WILBERFORCE (William)

1792

25

Continuation of the appendix to the second report of the committee on African Instruction (London 1824

Reference: Binnsvol016-005 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824

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

Unknown

1824

14

Declaration of the objects of the Newcastle upon Tyne Society for promoting the Gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British Dominions (Newcastle upon Tyne 1823)

Reference: Binnsvol016-014 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1823

A declaration of the formation of the Newcastle society with subscribers names.

Unknown

1823

6

Immediate not gradual abolition; or an inquiry into the shortest safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery, by Elizabeth Heyrick (?) (London 1824

Reference: Binnsvol016-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Elizabeth Heyrick Year: 1824

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

Elizabeth Heyrick

1824

28

Mr Alexander Barings’ speech in the House of Commons on Buxton’s motion for a resolution declaratory of slavery in the British colonies, being contrary to the English constitution and to Christianity. (London 1823)

Reference: Binnsvol016-007 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: BARING (Alexander) Year: 1823

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)

BARING (Alexander)

1823

10

Report of the agency committee of the anti slavery society, established in June 1831, for the purpose of disseminating information by lectures on colonial slavery (London 1832)

Reference: Binnsvol016-013 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1832

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

Unknown

1832

13

Report of the committee managing a fund raised by some friends for the purpose of promoting African instruction with an account of a visit to the Gambia and Sierra Leone (London 1822)

Reference: Binnsvol016-016 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1822

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

Unknown

1822

36

Report of the Committee of the society for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British Dominions (London 1824) and proceedings of the first anniversary meeting of the Anti Slavery Society June 1824

Reference: Binnsvol016-004 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824

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

Unknown

1824

58

Second report of the committee managing a fund raised for the purpose of promoting African instruction, with an appendix (London 1824)

Reference: Binnsvol016-008 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1824

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

Unknown

1824

25

Thoughts upon Slavery by John Wesley (London 1774

Reference: Binnsvol016-012 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: WESLEY (John) Year: 1774

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

WESLEY (John)

1774

27