Volume: BINNS VOL. 19

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Account of the Receipts and disbursements of the Anti Slavery society for the years 1823, 1824, 1825 and 1826, with a list of the subscribers

Reference: Binnsvol019-006 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: Unknown Year: 1827
Unknown 1827 15

Considerations on the Negroe Cause commonly so called, addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, lord chief justice of the court of the king’s bench, by Samuel Estwick, A.M. assistant agent for the Island of Barbados. 2nd edition (London 1773)

Reference: Binnsvol019-002 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: ESTWICK (Samuel) Year: 1773
The author, who attended the Somerset hearings (1772), argues that the ruling remained vague in respect to the status of slaves in England and that the legal arguments were founded on ‘false… Keep reading
 ESTWICK (Samuel) 1773 47

Free Remarks on the spirit of the Federal Constitution, the practice of the Federal Government and the obligations of the Union, respecting the exclusion of slavery from the territories and new states, by a Philadelphian (Philadelphia 1819)

Reference: Binnsvol019-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: WALSH (Robert) Year: 1819
An American pamphlet, giving a historical overview of slavery in the US, looking at legislation passed in the new states regarding slavery, and calling for rights of all as expressed in the… Keep reading
 WALSH (Robert) 1819 59

Ladies Anti-Slavery associations.

Reference: Binnsvol019-008 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: Unknown Year: 1827
Expression of the disappointment of the progress of the anti slavery movement led by men, and a call for immediate abolition, and the resolutions of the societies.
 Unknown 1827 4

Observations on the Demerara memorial and on the false assumption that enslaved British subjects are legal chattels, in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend in London (London 1829

Reference: Binnsvol019-005 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: Unknown Year: 1829
A letter attacking Demerara’s planter’s request against the enslaved workers buying their freedom, and on slavery and its ‘legality’ The author’s position on the legality of slavery is that there couldn’t… Keep reading
 Unknown 1829 43

Second Report of the Committee of the society of the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions, read at the general meeting of the society held on the 30th day of April 1825 (London 1825)

Reference: Binnsvol019-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: Unknown Year: 1825
Committee report including reports on legislature in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, St Lucia etc, and Wilberforce’s retirement from parliamentary life, as well as proceedings of the general meeting. ‘Let us look again… Keep reading
 Unknown 1825 103

The Negro and the Free Born Briton compared; or a vindication of the African slave trade, proving that it is lawful and right, in a religious, in a political and in a commercial view. Interspersed with religious and critical digressions, humbly addressed to the people of England, but more particularly to the Legislature and to the merchants, planters and others concerned in the West India trade (London no date, perhaps 1790)

Reference: Binnsvol019-004 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: Unknown Year: 1789
Proslavery tract supporting slavery from a religious, moral economical and philosophical standpoint: ‘the vast annual importation of slaves into our sugar colonies, proves to a demonstration that the number born there,… Keep reading
 Unknown 1789 32

West India Sugar.

Reference: Binnsvol019-007 Volume: BINNS VOL. 19 Author: Unknown Year: 1827
Short pamphlet looking at the history of East and West India sugar, the human and financial costs, and the contrast between the two.
 Unknown 1827 3