Image Collection 23 Items Granville Sharp collection, 1783-1803, undated The collection contains documents relating to Granville Sharp's efforts to abolish the slave trade. They include a copy of remarks regarding slavery and Quaker abolitionists; committee meeting notes; excerpts of an essay detailing the history of the British slave trade; notes on Anthony Benezet's historical account of Guinea; observations on a pamphlet titled "Cursory Remarks"; a list of the number of slaves in the West Indie Islands, dated 1788; and an essay sent to the Lewes Journal about the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, dated 1794. View Collection
Image Collection 2 Items John Clarkson manuscripts, August 6, 1791-August 4, 1792 John Clarkson (1764-1828) was an English abolitionist, agent for the Sierra Leone Company, and lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. The collection consists of Clarkson's manuscripts, written in journal form, of his involvement with the settlement of free African-American loyalists from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, Africa. The loyalists had been evacuated from New York when the British pulled out at the end of the Revolutionary War and initially settled in Nova Scotia. View Collection