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Old England for ever! or a fig for the invasion. A comic opera. In two acts, written by Archibald Mclaren, Late Serjeant in the Dunbartonshire Highlanders. Author of the Coup-de-Main, Siege of Perth, Siege of Berwick, American Slaves, Highland Drover, What News from Bantry Bay, Account of the Insurrection in Ireland &c.
MacLaren, Archibald, 1755-1826.Date: [1799]- Books
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The groans of Britons at the gloomy prospect of the present precarious state of their liberties and properties, compared with what it has been. Illustrated with Various Examples, from Antient and Modern History of Free Nations becoming Slaves from the Effects of Avarice, the borrid Vice to which we owe all our present Calamities.
Date: [1743]- Books
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A discourse, delivered April 12, 1797, at the request of and before the New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been or May Be Liberated. By Samuel Miller, A.M. One of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Churches in the city of New-York, and member of said Society.
Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850.Date: --1797--- Archives and manuscripts
Conveyance of rebel slaves from Port-au-Prince to Jamaica
Date: 29 February-28 April 1792Reference: MS.7151/4-9Part of: Slave Trade- Books
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The monopolizer outwitted! A musical entertainment, in two acts. By Archibald Maclaren, Author of the Coup-de-Main; Siege of Perth; highland Drover; First Nights Lodging; Old England for Ever; Humours of the Times; Account of the Irish Insurrection; the Negro Slaves, Soldier's Widow, &c. &c. &c. May the Sharp Seythe of the Law mow down the whole Crop of Monopolizers.
MacLaren, Archibald, 1755-1826.Date: 1800- Books
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What news from Bantry Bay; or, the faithful Irishman. A comic opera. Written by Archibald M'laren, Sergeant in the Dunbarton Highlanders. Author of the Coup de Main-Siege of Perth-Siege of Berwick-Tale of other Days-American Slaves-Scottish Volunteers-Highland Drover-Scotsman in London-Greenock Fair, &c. As it was performed at St. Peter's, Guernsey, by Mr. Bernard's Company, from Covent-Garden. To which is added, a copy of Mr. Daly's letter.
MacLaren, Archibald, 1755-1826.Date: 1798- Books
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The humours of the times; or, what news now? A comic opera, in two acts, written by Archibald M'laren, Late Sergeant in the Dumbartonshire Highlanders; Author of the Coup de Main, Seige of Perth, American Slaves, Blackman and Blackbird, Highland Drover, Old England for Ever, Account of Insurrection in Ireland, &c. &c. To which is annexed a Copy of a Letter from the Manager of the Dublin Theatre to the Author, containing his Approbation of the Piece.
MacLaren, Archibald, 1755-1826.Date: 1799- Books
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Utopia: or the happy republic; a philosophical romance, in two books. Book I. Containing Preliminary Discourses on the happiest State of a Commonwealth. Book II. Containing a Description of the Island of Utopia, The Towns, Magistrates, Mechanick Trades, and Manner of Life of the Utopians, Their Traffick, Travelling, Slaves, Marriages, Military Discipline, Religions. Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England. Translated into English by Gilbert Burnet D.D. Sometime Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow, afterwards Bishop of Sarum.
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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Unanswerable arguments against the abolition of the slave trade. With a defence of the proprietors of the British sugar colonies, Against certain malignant Charges contained in Letters published by a Sailor, and by Luffman, Newton, &c. Remarks on the Dispositions and Characters of the African Slaves; And Means suggested for the Distribution of their Labour; The Regulation of their Habitations, Foods, Cloathing, and Religious Instruction; The Accommodation of the Sick, and Cure of their Diseases; Which may be most conducive to render them Faithful, Obedient, and Happy. Published for the Benefit of the starving Tin-Miners in Cornwall. By James M. Adair, formerly M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. One of the Judges of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Island of Antigua; and Physician to the Commander in Chief, and the Colonial Troops of the said Island.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: [1790?]- Books
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An essay upon the state and condition of physicians among the antients: occasioned By a late dissertation of the Reverend Dr. Middleton: asserting That Physick was Servile and Dishonourable among the old Romans, and only practis'd by Slaves, and the meanest of the People. By Charles Lamotte, A.M. Chaplain to the Duke of Montagu, F. R. S. and Member of the Society of Antiquaries in London.
Lamotte, Charles.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Several voyages to Barbary. Containing an historical and geographical account of the country. With the Hardships, Sufferings, and manner of Redeeming Christian Slaves. Together with a curious Description of Mequinez, Oran, and Alcazar. With a journal of the late siege and surrender of Oran. To which are added, the maps of Barbary, and the Sea-Coasts; the Prospects of Mequinez and Alcazar; an exact Plan of Oran, and a View of the Ancient Roman Ruins near Mequinez. All Design'd by Captain Henry Boyde. The Whole Illustrated with Notes Historical and Critical.
La Motte, Philémon de.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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A voyage to Barbary, for the redemption of captives; performed (in 1720) by the Mathurin-Trinitarian Fathers, Fran. Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Bernard. Now first Englished from the French original. With lists of more than 400 Slaves ransomed (by the Royal Bounty of their late and present Majesties) from Mequeniz: Also very exact Draughts of that Place, Alcasar, Oran, and its Neighbourhood, with Maps, &c To which is subjoined, the history, ancient and modern, of Oran, &c. With a Journal of the Spaniards Procedure in those their recent African Conquests. The whole illustrated with Annotations Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.
La Motte, Philémon de.Date: MD.CC.CXXXV[1735]- Books
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A memorial deliver'd by Mr. Prior, Envoy-Extraordinary of his Britannick Majesty, to His most Christian Majesty, against The Fortifying the Ports and Harbours of Dunkirk and Mardike. The French King's Answer thereunto. A Memorial deliver'd to his Britannick Majesty in Holland, in Favour of the French Protestant Galley-Slaves. With the King's most Gracious Answer. The Buckinghamshire Electors Instructions to their Representatives, &c. The Citizens of London's Instructions to their Representatives. As Also the Protests of the Lords against the Clandestine Steps taken for a Separate Peace. Humbly offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons.
Date: [1715]- Books
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Voyage to Algiers and Tunis, for the redemption of captives; performed (in 1720) by the Mathurin-Trinitarian Fathers, Fran. Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Bernard. Now first Englished from the French original. With lists of more than 400 Slaves ransomed (by the Royal Bounty of their late and present Majesties) from Miquenez: Also very exact Draughts of that Place, Alcasar, Oran, and its Neighbourhood, with Maps, &c. To which is subjoined, the history, ancient and modern, of Oran, &c. With a Journal of the Spaniards Procedure in those their recent African Conquests. The whole illustrated with Annotations Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By J. Morgan, Gent.
La Motte, Philémon de.Date: MD.CC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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Reflections on the present state of the slaves in the British plantations, and the slave trade from Africa.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Ephemera
Black mistress, loves slaves.
Date: [1992]- Ephemera
Black mistress, loves slaves.
Date: [1992]- Ephemera
Black mistress, loves slaves.
Date: [1992]- Ephemera
Black mistress, loves slaves.
Date: [1991]- Ephemera
Black mistress, loves slaves.
Date: [1992]- Journals
Revue vétérinaire slave.
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The rights of British slaves.
Date: [1796?]- Archives and manuscripts
Painting of Livingstone freeing slaves
Date: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.7856/20Part of: Roche, Eleazer Birch (1848-1930), general practitioner and homoeopath- Books
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That the number of slaves annually carried from the Coast of Africa, ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1789]- Pictures
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British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.
Nash, J. (Joseph), -1922.Date: [1893]Reference: 37931i