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Slavery

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Slavery

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Image reference: CO 28/11

List of negroes aboard ships, and numbers sold, 1707-1708

 

 

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Image reference: CO 137/181

Rebellious slaves poster, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 January 1832

 

 

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Image reference: CO 137/222

Poster, Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society, 12 September 1836

 

 

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Image reference: CO 388/45 Pt.1 p.4

Calculation of the number of negroes required for work on plantations in America, c.1750

 

 

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Image reference: CO 388/45 Pt.1 p.5v

Ships employed in the slave trade to Africa from Bristol in 1749

 

 

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Image reference: FO 84/1070

A French Free Emigrant on his way to the barracoon of M. Regis, 1858

 

 

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Image reference: FO 84/1310 (a)

Indian Ocean: East African slaves taken aboard HMS Daphne from a dhow, 1 November 1868

 

 

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Image reference: FO 84/1310 (b)

Indian Ocean: East African slaves taken aboard HMS Daphne from a dhow, 1 November 1868

 

 

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Image reference: FO 84/1310 (c)

Indian Ocean: East African slaves taken aboard HMS Daphne from a dhow, 1 November 1868

 

 

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Image reference: FO 93/6/3

Engagement between Queen Victoria and the Kings of Bonny, Nigeria, for the abolition of slavery, 21 November 1848