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'An Act to amend the Act for the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies' (Manuscript) 1838-04-11 MGS/64/48
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 19, 'An Act to amend the Act for the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies', dated 11 April 1838.
'An Act for carrying into effect an additional article to a treaty with the Netherlands relating to the slave trade' (Manuscript) 1838-07-27 MGS/64/51
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 41, 'An Act for carrying into effect an additional article to a treaty with the Netherlands relating to the slave trade', dated 27 July 1838.…
'An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign, intitled, an Act for the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript) 1811-05-14 MGS/64/17
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 23, 'An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign, intitled, an Act for the abolition of the slave trade', dated 14 May 1811.
'An Act to enlarge the time for commencing prosecutions for forfeitures under certain Acts relating to the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript) 1813-07-10 MGS/64/18
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 112, 'An Act to enlarge the time for commencing prosecutions for forfeitures under certain Acts relating to the abolition of the slave trade', dated 10 July 1813.
'An Act to allow ships taken and condemned for being used in carrying on the slave trade to be registered as British-built ships' (Manuscript) 1814-05-27 MGS/64/19
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 59, 'An Act to allow ships taken and condemned for being used in carrying on the slave trade to be registered as British-built ships', dated 27 May 1814.
'An Act to carry into execution a convention made between His Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript) 1818-06-05 MGS/64/22
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 85, 'An Act to carry into execution a convention made between His Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing the traffic in slaves', dated 5 June 1818.
'An Act to explain three Acts, passed in the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and fifty-first years of His Majesty's reign, respectively, for the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript) 1818-05-30 MGS/64/21
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 49, 'An Act to explain three Acts, passed in the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and fifty-first years of His Majesty's reign, respectively, for the abolition of the slave trade', dated 30 May 18…
'An Act for carrying into effect a convention of accession of the King of the two Sicilies to two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript) 1838-08-10 MGS/64/54
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 84, 'An Act for carrying into effect a convention of accession of the King of the two Sicilies to two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade', dated 10 August 1838.
'An Act to amend an Act of last session of Parliament, for carrying into execution a convention made between His Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript) 1819-03-31 MGS/64/25
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 17, 'An Act to amend an Act of last session of Parliament, for carrying into execution a convention made between His Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing the traffic in slaves', da…
'An Act for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade' (Manuscript) 1824-06-24 MGS/64/31
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George IV, Chapter 113, 'An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade', dated 24 June 1824.
'An Act for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade' (Manuscript) 1824-03-31 MGS/64/30
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George IV, Chapter 17, 'An Act for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade', dated 31 March 1824.
'An Act to carry into effect certain licenses, permitting the removal of Negro slaves from the Bahama Islands to Demerara' (Manuscript) 1820-07-15 MGS/64/28
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade which contain historical and offensive terms: George IV, Chapter 50, 'An Act to carry into effect certain licenses, permitting the removal of Negro slaves from the Bahama Islands to Demerara', dated 15 July 1820.
'An Act for the better and more effectually carrying into effect the treaties and conventions made with foreign powers for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript) 1838-07-27 MGS/64/52
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 47, 'An Act for the better and more effectually carrying into effect the treaties and conventions made with foreign powers for suppressing the slave trade', dated 27 July 1838.
Monthly plantation inventory (Manuscript) 1829-08-31 - 1832-01-09 MGS/28
Blankenburgh Estate, Demerera, Guyana. Monthly inventory entitled 'Journal of Plantation', dated Jan. 1832, including details of 324 enslaved people; the production of sugar, rum and livestock; goods received and delivered from the plantation; and employment of overseers from 31 Aug.…
Kentish Gazette (Manuscript) 1792-04-27 - 1792-05-25 MGS/47
'Kentish Gazette', Canterbury, Fri 27 April (No. 2847), Tue 15 May (No. 2492) and Fri 25 May (No. 2495) 1792.
Accounts of the Applewhaites Plantation (Manuscript) 1803-1804 MGS/40/1
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney: accounts, the Applewhaites Plantation, property of John Cobham Esq, 1803 and 1804, including details of enslaved people, stock, produce, incidental expenses, salaries and taxes etc.
Accounts of the Stepney Plantation (Manuscript) 1803-1804 MGS/40/3
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney, Barbados: accounts, the Stepney Plantation, property of Mrs Susanna C Cobham, 1803 and 1804, including details of enslaved people, stock, produce, incidental expenses, salaries and taxes etc
Accounts of the Applethwaites Plantation (Manuscript) 1807-1807 MGS/40/6
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney, Barbados: accounts, the Applewhaites Plantation, 1807, including details of enslaved people, stock, produce, incidental expenses, salaries and taxes etc
Accounts of the Mullineux Plantation (Manuscript) 1806-1806 MGS/40/5
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney, Barbados: accounts, the Mullineux Plantation, 1806, including details of enslaved people, stock, produce, incidental expenses, salaries and taxes etc
Accounts of the Mullineux Plantation (Manuscript) 1807-1807 MGS/40/7
Archive of documents relating to the plantations and estates of Mullineux, Applewhaites and Stepney, Barbados: accounts, the Mullineux Plantation, 1807, including details of enslaved people, stock, produce, incidental expenses, salaries and taxes etc
Bill of sale (Manuscript) 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.
An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791... (Manuscript) 1791-1791 MGS/56/1
Book entitled 'An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791; on the part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave Trade', published by J. Robertson, Edinburgh, 1791.…
Plan of the BROOKES slave ship (Manuscript) 1791 MGS/56/2
A printed plan showing dimensions of the slave ship BROOKES, as measured by Captain Parrey at Liverpool in 1788. With sections and deck plans showing the manner in which enslaved people could be legally stowed on the ship. Originally a folded leaf inside the volume MGS/56/1.