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Slavery -- Great Britain -- Anti-slavery movements

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

Archive of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1)

Archive of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1).
Extents: 1.80 linear metres (41 boxes)
Dates: 1730-1902
Digital Image

Digital surrogate of minute book of the Committee on Slavery

Dates: 31 Jan 1823-9 Feb 1825; Digitized: 2023
Single Item

Letter from Thomas Clarkson to John Tredgold

Letter from Thomas Clarkson to John Tredgold.
Shelfmark: MS. 24046
Extents: 1 box (1 folder)
Dates: 1 Dec 1841
Single Item

Letter from William Wilberforce

Letter from William Wilberforce
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 650, fols. 252-253
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1832
Single Item

Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (2)

22 ff., 1 volume Letters and papers of or relating to Buxton, including one letter from Thomas Clarkson and two (one a contemporary copy) from William Wilberforce, 1805-1903; also including an account of Mrs. Fry's visit to Glasgow Prison in 1818, written in 1834 by Anna Gurney.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 559
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1805-1903
Single Item

Scrap album of Lucy Townsend, Secretary to the West Bromwich branch of the 'Ladies' Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves'

Scrap Album of Lucy Townsend, Secretary to the West Bromwich Branch of the 'Ladies' Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves'.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 4
Extents: 0.1 Linear metres (1 box)
Dates: c.1816-1830
Single Item

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton and Priscilla Buxton Letters

Letter from Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton to his daughter Priscilla, written six weeks after emancipation, regarding his future work in Parliament; letter from Priscilla to her aunt giving extracts from all of her father's letters from London on the slavery question. The letters are dated 1824-1834.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 547
Extents: 16 ff.
Dates: 1824-1834