Slavery

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Correspondence about and copies of material relating to Booth in the Anti-Slavery papers at Rhodes House Library, Bodleian, Oxford, comprising papers written towards the end of or shortly after the First World War. The file includes Shepperson’s notes on the items.

Scope and Contents 1. Letter from John W. Moir, Edinburgh. Addressed 'Dear Friend'. He describes a visit to Mwatyusa's village near the north end of Lake Nyasa and theelephant hunt that took place on the following day. This was requested by the Chief because the beasts had been damaging the gardens and tearing down their banana trees. March 1935.2. Letter from John W. Moir, Edinburgh. Addressed 'Dear Friend'. When John Moir and his brother first went out to Africa in 1877, the slave trade was 'a...

Scope and Contents This file contains copies from the Public Record Office, of correspondence from H. H. Johnston, HM Commissioner for Central Africa, Colonial Office.Folder 1:- Clement H Hill: Memo. Importance of East Coast of Africa to Britain, 20 October 1884. - Letter H H. Johnston to Cecil Rhodes. Refutes all accusations, 8 October 1893. - Letter H H Johnston to Ear of Roseberry. Encloses his letter to Rhodes (copy), 8 October 1893. Asks for leave of absence after...

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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'.

Scope and Contents Correspondence: Josephine Cunnington Edwards and George Shepperson.1. Letter from George Shepperson, University of Edinburgh, to Mrs Josephine Cunnington Edwards, Broadview Academy, Illinois, USA. George Shepperson introduces himself. He has heard that Mrs Edwards spent nine years with the Malamula Mission in Nyasaland and must consequently have interests similar to his. He outlines his plan for a book on the Nyasaland 1915 Rising and gives some indication of...

Scope and Contents Notebook No. 129 was kept by Lyell during his trip to America in 1845-6, mostly written in pencil, after his lecture tour, with visits to Hopeton Plantation, St. Simon's Island, and Georgia. It contains his observations while he visited several plantations worked by enslaved people extracted from undocumented regions of Africa, and bought at auction. Mr. and Mrs. Lyell stayed with James Hamilton Couper at Hopeton plantation for two weeks in January 1846. Couper was a member of the British...

Scope and Contents This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s visit to the United States of America (started in Notebook 121) recording his time spent around Georgia (Hopeton-on-the-Altamaha, Macon, Milledgeville, Savannah, Parramore Hill, Scottsboro, Gordon, and Upatoi creek) with detailed visits to Macon and the surrounding areas. It covers many diverse discussions covering topics of the everyday lives of slaves, slavery, abolition, religion, war, floral and faunal specimens, and geological...