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Title

Archive of the Anti-Slavery Society

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 16-25 / A-K

Summary

Papers of The Anti-Slavery Society, 1757-1982.

Associated place

Oceania

South America

Africa

North America

Asia

Europe

Date

1757-1982

Language

Dutch

Italian

Spanish

Portuguese

English

Arabic

French

German

Physical extent

118.47 Linear metres

2236 physical shelfmarks

Acquisition

The papers of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society up to 1941 were purchased from the Society for the Bodleian Library by the Rhodes Trustees in 1951. It was agreed that the Library would have the right to acquire, at ten year intervals, the Society's papers of the previous decade. When the 1941-1951 accession was due to arrive a second payment was made to the Society to ensure that all of its papers to the end of the twentieth century would come to the Library.

With the Accessions 1941-1951 came the papers of Kathleen, Lady Simon, DBE, the wife of Sir John Simon, PCSI, GCVO. These papers had been deposited after her death on 27th March 1955 by her son, B.O'D. Manning, with the Anti-Slavery Society. When the Society's 1941-1951 papers were acquired by the Library Mr. Manning gave his mother's papers as an addition.

Subject

Slavery

20th century

18th century

Antislavery movements -- Great Britain

Abolitionists | Great Britain

19th century

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