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JSTOR-19th Century British Pamphlets Collection: Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection

Wilson anti-slavery

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http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=pamphas

Published:

Manchester, England : The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University Library ; New York : JSTOR

Language:

English

Format:

Unknown

Subjects:

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--Sources

Abolitionists--Great Britain--History--19th century--Sources

Slavery--West Indies, British--Sources

Great Britain--Colonies--History--Sources

Description:

A collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets received in 1923 from the executors of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield. The collection is of particular importance for the study of the activities of the provincial philanthropic societies, such as the Birmingham and Midland Freedmen's Aid Association, the Birmingham and West Bromwich Ladies' Negro's Friend Society, the Glasgow Emancipation Society, the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society, and the Sheffield Ladies Female Anti Slavery Society

Notes:

Database coverage: 1761-1900.