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Sheppard, Thomas
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'Applewhaites Barbados sugar works destroyed by fire' (Manuscript)
MGS/40/22
The Cornwall Chronicle and Jamaica General Advertiser (Manuscript)
1785-02-19 - 1785-02-26
MGS/46
Shipping bill (Manuscript)
1763-01-03
MGS/14
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of the Equator for the abolition of the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript)
1848-09-04
MGS/64/79
'An Act to amend an Act, intituled an Act to carry into execution a convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the regulation and final abolition of the African slave trade' (Manuscript)
1845-08-08
MGS/64/78
'An Act for carrying into effect the agreement between Her Majesty and the Imaum of Muscat for the more effectual suppression the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1848-09-05
MGS/64/80
Registration certificate (Manuscript)
1826-08-15
MGS/2
'The capture of a slaver' (Manuscript)
1895
MGS/62
Monthly plantation inventory (Manuscript)
1829-08-31 - 1832-01-09
MGS/28
Monthly plantation inventory (Manuscript)
1827-02-01 - 1827-02-21
MGS/27
Plantation inventory (Manuscript)
1820-06-28
MGS/29
Registration Certificate (Manuscript)
1826-12-27
MGS/3
Kentish Gazette (Manuscript)
1792-06-19 - 1792-07-13
MGS/48
Kentish Gazette (Manuscript)
1792-04-27 - 1792-05-25
MGS/47
Bell's Weekly Messenger Newspaper (Manuscript)
1813-09-12
MGS/50
Bell's Weekly Messenger Newspaper (Manuscript)
1811-07-14
MGS/49
The Tourist or Sketch Books of the Times (Manuscript)
1832-11-26 - 1832-12-03
MGS/52
'The speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, on a motion for the abolition of the slave trade, in the House of Commons, Monday the Second of April, 1792' (Manuscript)
1792
MGS/61
Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript)
circa 1860
MGS/67
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty with the King of the French and the King of Denmark for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1835-09-09
MGS/64/40
'An Act for extending to the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the powers given by an Act of the fifth year of King George the Fourth to Her Majesty's Governors and Officers for the more effectual suppression of the importation of slaves into India by sea' (Manuscript)
1842-08-10
MGS/64/67
'An Act to enable Her Majesty to provide for the Government of Her settlements on the coast of Africa and in the Falkland Islands' (Manuscript)
1843-04-11
MGS/64/69
'An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the second and third years of Her present Majesty, for the suppression of the slave trade, as relates to Portuguese vessels' (Manuscript)
1842-08-12
MGS/64/68
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Texas for the suppression of the African slave trade' (Manuscript)
1843-04-11
MGS/64/71
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