Anti-Slavery Society
MSS. Lugard 117
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Description
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Title
Anti-Slavery Society
Shelfmark
MSS. Lugard 117
Summary
File 1, fols. 1-23 and items 1-2: Source material supplied to Lugard by the Society on slavery in Zanzibar, the preference of the indigenous people of the New Hebrides to be governed by the British, the slave trade in Persia and child slavery and labour in Hong Kong, 1893-1929.
File 2, fols. 1-142: Correspondence with officers of the Anti-Slavery Society, namely Charles Roberts, president, Travers Buxton and C.W.W. Greenidge, secretaries, and Sir Robert Hamilton, treasurer, with related papers and notes by Lugard on papers he had removed from the file and destroyed, 1929-1945.
File 3, fols. 1-16: Correspondence with Professor A.E. Morgan, principal of Hull University, and Sir John Harris about the appeal for funds for the William Wilberforce Memorial, 1933.
File 4, item 1: Facsimile of the Jamaica Courant and Public Advertiser, vol. 4, no. 207, of 1 Sep 1830, n.d.
Date
1893-1945
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Papers of Frederick Dealtry Lugard, Baron Lugard of Abinger
Slavery
Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society
Anti-Slavery Society
