Slavery and Abolition

Geoffrey Plank, Discipline and Divinity: Colonial Quakerism, Christianity, and "Heathenism" in the Seventeenth Century, Church History, Vol. 85, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2016), pp. 502-528

S. D. Smith, The Account Book of Richard Poor, Quaker Merchant of Barbados, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul., 2009), pp. 605-628

John E. Pomfret, The Proprietors of the Province of West New Jersey, 1674-1702, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Apr., 1951), pp. 117-146

Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can read the introductory maps for a high-level guided explanation, view the timeline and chronology of the traffic, or watch the slave ship and slave trade animations to see the dispersal in action.

Quakerism and slavery have a complex history. Learn how Quakers were involved in the slave trade, and how they became leaders in the abolition movement.

Pacifists making guns: the Galtons of Birmingham and Britain’s industrial revolution. If you didn’t get a chance to attend this lecture from Professor Priya Satia (Stanford) delivered a…

Bristol Record Society. A voluntary organisation dedicated to preserving, publishing and studying Bristol's documenatry history.

Half-title: Archives of the state of New Jersey. First series. vols. 1-10. Vols. 9-10 edited by F. W. Ricord and W. Nelson. ----General index to the Documents ... [to v. 1-10] Prepared by Frederick W. Ricord. Newark, N. J., Daily advertiser printing house, 1888. 2 p. leaves, 198 p. 23 cm. Also available in digital form. Also available in digital form.

Podcast series by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias, September 2021 – January 2022

THE INDEPENDENT When Catherine Impey started a radical newspaper that challenged Victorian readers to think about race, her ideas were far ahead of her time. Liam Drew takes a closer look

Blue glass sugar bowl inscribed in gilt 'EAST INDIA SUGAR/not made by/SLAVES' accompanied by a wooden box (not original but of the period) on four gilt brass feet with hinged lid and two lion-mask-and-ring handles containing three compartments, two formerly lined with lead for green and black tea, the central one for the bowl.

In 1833 the UK Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act, which outlawed slavery throughout the British Empire, although it did not fully take effect until 1838. However, Britain’s involvement wi…

View high resolution digitized images of Bodleian Library MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 20 / E2 / 1 Minute book of the Committee on Slavery, 31 Jan. 1823-9 Feb. 1825 The first minute book of the Anti-Slavery Society. The roots of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society go back to the 18th century, and the beginnings of a largely Quaker-inspired movement to abolish the slave trade. However, even after the abolition of the trade in Britain in 1807, and the emancipation of slaves in the colonies in 1834, an alternative form of slavery, the 'apprenticeship system' continued until 1838 in the West Indies. Against this background, in 1823, a number of men led by William Wilberforce and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton began to meet regularly in London to discuss the slave trade and slavery in British possessions. The resulting organisation, the Committee on Slavery, later changed its name to The Society for the Amelioration and Gradual Abolition of Slavery, and in 1835 to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, committed to ending slavery worldwide. During the 19th century, the Society campaigned on a number of related issues, including the trade in slave-cultivated sugar from Brazil and Cuba, and the East African slave trade (resulting from its close contacts with Dr. Livingstone). In the 1890s its mandate began to include the ill treatment of indigenous peoples, leading to its eventual merger with the Aborigines' Protection Society.

Journal by Elizabeth Heyrick and Susanna Watts

Includes free digital access to 800 documents created by Douglass, including a number of his letters to British and American Quakers.

This archive collects the visual culture and narratives of contemporary antislavery, as well as heritage and public history projects that grapple with past and present slavery and antislavery. Its collections are a resource for understanding cultures of antislavery activism and protest memory.

The Library’s Visual Resources Development Officer, Melissa Atkinson, talks about one enduring image in our collection. I am fascinated with historical material culture and how it translates into m…