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Enslavement

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Abolition of Slave trade with petition to Parliament. Cupar Presbytery, 12 July 1814

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Identifier: MS CHA6/23/25
Dates: 12 July 1814
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Speeches

Indenture relating to a plantation in Grenada, 1817

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/8/8
Scope and Contents Large indenture on vellum relating to legal transactions concerning slaves and estates in St Andrews, Grenada (West Indies), involving mainly but not exclusively Evan Baillie, John and Catherine Bagot, and Alexander Fraser. The first page is a schedule of the enslaved people present on the plantation in 1817, and the children born in the following years. The list gives their first name, their origin, their age, and any 'distinctive mark'. Content...
Dates: 1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Miscellaneous papers and correspondence

On the Slave Trade, 1815

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Identifier: MS CHA6/23/32
Dates: 1815
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Speeches

Petition of the inhabitants of the parish of Kilmany for the abolition of the African slave trade, 1812-1815

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Identifier: MS CHA6/22/2
Dates: 1812-1815
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Church papers, Church of Scotland