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Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection (Manuscript) 1741 - 1916 MGS
The Collection explores aspects of the West African, transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and includes material relating to the abolition of slavery.…
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection circa 1860 MGS/69
Published by Harpel, 3rd & vine Sts, Cincinnati. Envelope with image and the following caption: 'Secession's Moving Foundation. Tendency due North -- via "Monroe"'. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection circa 1860 MGS/68
Published by Stimson & Co., 79 Cedar St., New York. Envelope with image of John Brown and the following caption: 'I die for the inalienable right of mankind to freedom, whatever hue/the skin may be.' Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1764-05-18 MGS/17
Bill of lading, Hutchison Mure (?) Esq and owner of the LORETTA to Alexander Belsches (?), dated 18 May 1764, detailing goods, including peas and beans, kiln-drying, commissions etc with costs totalling £75.13.4
Manuscript MGS/64
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Manuscript MGS/40
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Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1872-01-25 MGS/4
Registration document (Registro de Esclavos), detailing the registration of an enslaved individual named Reyes, 54 years, property of Ortiz of Puerto Rico, 25 January 1872. In Spanish
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1794-06 MGS/15
Shipping bill for the ship ASCENTION inwards from Havanna (Samuel Chase, Master), Jun 1794, including 'to cash pay the Officers and People for 81/2 slaves @ 100 dollars each...£255...to cash pay the Widow Babcock 21/2 slaves...£75.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1820-1820 MGS/25
Inventory of goods from a plantation, c1820, including 15 named enslaved men, women and children, certified by appraisers Simeon Heiner and Isaac Frink (2 pages).
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1763-06-27 MGS/16
Bill of lading from Custom House, Jamaica, 27 June 1763, certifying prize goods, including sugar, coffee and timber, carried by Robert Pouleny (?), Master of the LORETTA of London
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1834-08-10 MGS/38
Cheque from the Anti-Slavery Society, London, 10 August 1834, signed by William Smith and Zachary Macaulay and drawn on Messr. Hoare Barnetts, Hoare & Co. totalling £68.11.8 (see auction catalogue for further details on these individuals).
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1825-03-29 MGS/1
Registration of a sale at the Office for the Enregisterment of Slaves, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, dated 29 March 1825. Records the sale of an enslaved girl, Alima, aged 14 and three-quarter years by Mrs Cloete to Mrs van Reenen
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1859-04-30 - 1860-04-30 MGS/40/18
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney: account sheet, Thomas Cobham Esq, with Thomas Daniel & Co, 30 Apr 1859-30 April 1860
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1862-10-07 MGS/54
Edinburgh, containing President Lincoln's proclamation on the emancipation of enslaved people, with annotations in ink throughout.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1916 MGS/63
Pamphlet (illustrated), 'Medals, tokens etc, issued in connection with William Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery', by Thomas Sheppard (Hull Museum Publications No.109, August 1916; reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society').
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1839-03-02 MGS/22
Letter from J Leese to William Hobbs of Worcester, 2 March 1839, written on Abolitionist notepaper, printed for the Anti-Slavery Society, England. With an engraving of a master/ overseer whipping an enslaved man in shackles.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection MGS/40/23
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney: mounted albumen print, 'Applewhaites Barbados sugar works - inside view of new building', nd
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection MGS/40/22
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney: mounted albumen print, 'Applewhaites Barbados sugar works destroyed by fire April [...] 1904 and restored - from end of [...] facing N.W.', nd.…
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1810-1819 MGS/40/11
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney: summary of accounts, 'Dr Richard Cobham on account of interest with the Estate of the late John Cobham Esq deceased', 1810-1819.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1838-05-23 MGS/7
Notarised copy of a bill of sale, New Orleans, Louisiana, 23 May 1838, for $800 cash in hand paid for an enslaved 'mulatress' named Lucy, aged c18 years, sold by George Ann Botts to Samuel Marmaduke Dinwiddie Clarke.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1763-01-03 MGS/14
Shipping bill certifying the loading of 'one slave boy', valued at £6 sterling, shipped by Alexander Young on the ship LORETTA (Robert Poulsney, Master), on the River Sierra Leone, bound for Jamaica, dated 3 Jan 1763.
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection 1804-05-09 MGS/8
Receipt dated 9 May 1804 for 26 Africans from the ship ANN from Cape Mount, Kingston, Jamaica, bought by HM Government from George Kinghorn as recruits for HM's Second West India Regiment at Fort Augusta for £2,340 (at £90 per head).…