A major gathering of correspondence, documents, and other original material relating to the abolitionist cause in the United States from 1832 until after the American Civil War. Includes letters from British Quaker abolitionist Anne Knight
Discipline and Divinity: Colonial Quakerism, Christianity, and "Heathenism" in the Seventeenth Century on JSTOR
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
The Account Book of Richard Poor, Quaker Merchant of Barbados on JSTOR
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
The Proprietors of the Province of West New Jersey, 1674-1702 on JSTOR
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
To Heal and to Harm: Medicine, Knowledge, and Power in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Roberts, Carolyn Elizabeth. 2017. To Heal and to Harm: Medicine, Knowledge, and Power in
the Atlantic Slave Trade. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts &
Sciences.
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.
Slavery in the Quaker World: Christian Slavery and White Supremacy
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: Video of Talk on 18th Century Quakers
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…
Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey, [1631-1776]
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.
The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England by Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873
The forgotten woman who took on white supremacy — Liam Drew
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.
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.