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An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785

An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species_uploaded.pdf

An Act for regulating the shipping and carrying of slaves in British vessels from the Coast of Africa

An act for regulating the shipping and carrying of slaves.pdf

Leg-irons

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Photograph of a set of leg-irons that were once used to restrain captives and to stop them from escaping. Being put in leg-irons was also punishment on plantations.

Spatula

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Photograph of a carved wooden spoon used to stir food. It was produced by people in the runaway slave communities of Suriname. Craft work such as this spatula was a form of resistance to slavery.

Objections to the abolition of the slave trade, with answers to which are prefixed

objections_abolition_slave_trade3.pdf

A short account of that part of Africa inhabited by the Negroes

A_Short_Account_of_that_part_of_Africa_inhabited_by_the_Negroes__extracted_from_divers_authors__The_second_edition_With_large_additions_and_amendments.pdf

A cry from the Middle Passage or the Act of 1846, and its effects on the Slave Trade

A Cry From the middle passage.pdf

A Dreadful Account of a Negro who, for killing the Overseer of a Plantation in Jamaica, was placed in an iron cage where he was left to expire

A Dreadful Account of a Negro.pdf

Orange Valley, Slave Hospital

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Ruins of the Orange Valley Slave Hospital in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica.

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