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Sources Guide: Slavery and Anti-Slavery

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Medical notebook: notebook kept by clergyman and physician FB includes passage concerning revolt on board a slave-ship sailing from Africa to America, Oct 1678 MS.MSL.19/2

Slave Trade: Letters and other documents describing the treatment of slaves and the work of abolitionists, plus personal correspondence of abolitionists, relating to the UK and the Americas, 1737-1842 MS.7151

Joshua Dixon: letters to mother, family and friends, while assistant to Edward Parr, Liverpool apothecary and merchant with an interest in the slave-trade, 1764-5 MS.2196

John Coakley Lettsom: collection of newspaper cuttings, 1772-1804, includes material on negro slavery MS.3248/5

- documents relating to Lettsom in Medical Society of London archives include several relating to his slaves and release of them, late C18th AMS/MF/4/17

Richard Price: letter re questions about the birth-rate in Britain's colonies in North America and the West Indies asked by "Mr. Clarkson", probably the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson, q.v., 1786 MS.7433/26

William Allen, FRS: letter from Samuel Emlen, 1806, discussing activities of Thomas Clarkson, q.v, and prospects of abolition in the USA MS.7397/3

G R Nylander: autograph letter describing conditions in Sierra Leone, including the slave trade, 1809 MS.7330/38

Buenos Aires: Hospital Bethlemítico de Santa Catalina: Patients Register includes slaves, and occasionally freed slaves, 1818-22 MS.Amer.149

Thomas Hodgkin MD: Quaker physician, philanthropist and active campaigner against slavery and for the protection of aboriginal populations: copious material among his papers, c. 1820s-60s, including relating to various societies and organisations; some additional material among papers of other members of Hodgkin and Howard families PP/HO, AMS/MF/3

Richard Robert Madden: poem “The Slave Trade Merchant”, 1838 MS.Amer.138

Thomas Clarkson: correspondence of leading anti-slavery campaigner, 1841-2, n.d. MS.8302

David Livingston: illustrations of "The Horrors of Negro Slavery", 1843 MS.7329/83

Henry Piers: journal as assistant surgeon on board HMS Cleopatra, on anti-slavery patrols off the coast of East Africa, 1844-7 MS.5990

Harriet Martineau: letter 1866, to E Bostock, on the emancipation of the slaves in the USA MS.7307

Maj-Gen Charles George Gordon: Letters to Major Charles Moore Watson R.E., concerning Gordon's attempts to suppress the slave trade, 1874-83 MS.6897

Eleazer Birch Roche: some late C19th material on Livingstone and the slave-trade within Africa MS.7856

Sir Henry Morton Stanley: autograph letters, etc, late C19th, including a Certificate granting freedom to a slave, with translation MS.7635

Sir James Cantlie: letters from Sun Yat Sen, 1910-21, include discussions of child slavery in Hong Kong MS.7934

Stanley George Browne: photographs of old slave prison, Dakar, and slave quarters, Cyrene, c. 1960s-70s WTI/SGB/K.5/12

Cicely Williams: file relating to the Anti-Slavery Society and female circumcision, 1979-80; talk to the Anti-Slavery Society, 1975 PP/CDW/H.1/3, K.60