Slavery
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
'Abolitionist societies 1787-1838: a half-century of abolition': University of London MA thesis
380 pages.
African Papers of Sir John Gray
Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.
Antigua marriage settlement, 1815
A settlement on the marriage of Henry Haynes with Harriet Watkins Oliver, including property on the island of Antigua and enslaved persons specifically noted as forming part of this.
British Honduras poster advertising the sale of enslaved persons, 1827
A printed poster of the Provost Marshal's sales, June Grand Court, 11 June 1827, advertising the sale of enslaved persons at the Court House on 25 June 1827. The poster gives the names of the owners and enslaved persons and the cost price, although some of these details have been cut out and removed. On the back of the poster are manuscript details of the sale of an slaved person at the June Great Court, dated July 1827.
'Colonialism: before and after'
Documents regarding Grenada, 1767 - 1964
Letters and papers concerning Grenada written by Robert Melville and others and an edition of 'Royal Commonwealth Society Library notes' concerning Melville and this collection.
Dominica Estate documents
Jamaica marriage settlement, 1792 - 1970
Letters of Edward Lyulph Stanley
Letters on the slave trade and Sir Samuel Baker, 1870
Letters to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton from Sir Samuel Baker and Sir Roderick Murchison. There is a covering letter from Mrs M.C. Ponsonby, 8 February 1939, presenting the letters to the R.C.S., and the Librarian's reply, 9 February 1939. The folder also includes 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 19 (July 1958), comprising the article 'Sir Samuel Baker and the slave trade', which transcribes the letters and comments on them.
'Memorandum in regard to the slave trade between East Africa and the United States', 1909
An undated memorandum regarding the extent to which enslaved persons taken to America included Africans from the eastern side of the continent, consisting largely of extracts from T. Fowell Buxton's 'The African slave trade and its remedy' (1840). The latest date mentioned in the memorandum is 1909.
Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa
Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.
Nicholas Darnell Davis collection
Papers of Cuthbert Christy
Diaries, notes, letters, reports, publications and maps written or collected by Christy during his medical and zoological work in Scotland, Africa and India.
Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover
This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.
Papers on West Africa
Photographs of Zanzibar by James Augustus Grant, 1860
A collection of loose prints copied from stereoscopic views.
Sir George Arthur, Superintendent of British Honduras: papers
Slavery, 1930-04 - 1938-04
Newscuttings concerning slavery in Africa, particularly in Abyssinia.
Slavery, 1960 - 1985
Photographs of paintings and engravings from various sources.
'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.
West Indian documents
Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.