Publications relating to slavery

Reference No:
L SLA/6/1
Dates:
1791-1799
Description:

Publications include:

County Gentlemen's reasosn for voting against Mr. Wilberforce's motion for a Bill to prohibit the importation of African Negroes into colonies, 1792;

Farther reasons of a country Gentleman for opposing Mr. Wilberforce's motion on the 15th day of May last, for prohibiting British subjects trading to Africa to procure Negroes for the British colonies, 1792;

An appeal to the candour and justic of the people of England, on behalf of the West India merchants and planters, founded on plain facts and incontrovertible arguments, 1792;

The slave trade peace, and a temperate reform essential to the salvation of England, n.d.;

A speech delivered at a free conference between the honourable the Council and Assembly of Jamaica on the subject of Mr. Wilberforce's proposition in the House of Commons concerning the slave trade, 1789;

A letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. suggested to the author by the present insurrection of the Negroes in the island of St. Domingo, 1791;

A letter to the honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham on the slave-trade by Reverend Percival Stockdale, 1799;

The true state of the question addressed to the petitioners for the abolition of the slave trade by a plain man; and

The opening of the case in support of the petitions of the merchants of London and Liverpool against the Bill, by Edward Law, 1799

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 item
Access Conditions:
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Repository:
Hull City Archives
Collection:
Microfilm copies of records relating to slavery held elsewhere