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Slavery -- Great Britain -- Anti-slavery movements

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Archive of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (Supplementary Collection)

 Collection
Supplementary collection of the archive of Thomas Fowell Buxton, abolitionist.
Extents: 0.17 linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1820-1894

Digital surrogate of minute book of the Committee on Slavery

 Digital Image
Dates: 31 Jan 1823-9 Feb 1825; Digitized: 2023
Found in: Bodleian Libraries

Letter from Mrs Maria Cowper (née Madan) to her sister Mrs Penelope Maitland (née Madan)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 7, fols. 59-60
Letter from Maria Cowper to her sister Penelope Maitland, 1791
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 20 Dec 1791

Letter from Thomas Clarkson to John Tredgold

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

Letter from William Wilberforce

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

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

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 559
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.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1805-1903

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

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

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton and Priscilla Buxton Letters

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 547
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.
Extents: 16 ff.
Dates: 1824-1834