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James Makittrick Adair 
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Unanswerable Arguments Against the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1790 
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Louisa Susannah Aikman (née Wells) 
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The Journal of a Voyage from Charlestown, S.C., to London Undertaken During the American Revolution 1906 
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Sir Archibald Alison 1st Bart. 
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Principles of Population and Their Connection with Human Happiness 1840 
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Some Account of my Life and Writings. An Autobiography by the late Sir Archibald Alison 1883 
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History of Europe during the French Revolution 1833-1842 
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Alison's *Oxford DNB* biographer, claims that 'Despite the heavy political baggage, his work offered the first survey of the revolution in English', and that it was very popular: 'several editions...
Sir John Gay Alleyne 1st Bart. 
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A Letter to the North American, on Occasion of his Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados 1766 
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The context of this pamphlet was the response of Alleyne and others to the denunciation of Barbadians for accepting the Stamp Act (1766). See Jack P. Greene, ‘Liberty and Slavery. The Transfer of...
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A defence of the conduct of Barbadoes, during the late expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, in a letter to the Right Hon. Gen. Barrington 1760 
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John Lavicount Anderdon 
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The River Dove: with some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling 1847 
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The Life of Thomas Ken: Bishop of Bath and Wells 1854 
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Approach to the Holy Altar 1852 
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Exposition of the Apostle's Creed 1852 
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The Messiah: A Narrative of the life, travels, death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord 1861 
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George Baillie 
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Series of 3 pamphlets of 'Interesting Letters' addressed to John Bolton, Evan Baillie and James Baillie published in 1809 1809 
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See also the following, listed in the British Library catalogue: Baillie, George. George Baillie's narrative of the mercantile transactions of the concerns of George Baillie...
Hugh Duncan Baillie 
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A letter from Colonel Hugh D. Baillie to the Very Reverend the Dean of Christ Church; together with a correspondence relating to the removal of Mr Henry Baillie from that college 1823 
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John Proculus Baker 
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An Essay on the Art of Making Muscovado Sugar wherein a New Process is Proposed 1775 
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Edward Nathaniel Bancroft 
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An essay on the disease called yellow fever, with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures before the College of Physicians in the years 1806 and 1807 1811 
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A letter to the commissioners of military enquiry, containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report 1808 
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Exposure of misrepresentations by Dr McGrigor and Dr Jackson to the commissioners of military enquiry 1808 
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Alexander Barclay 
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A Practical view of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies 1826 
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David Barclay 
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An Account of the Emancipation of the Slaves of Unity Valley Pen, in Jamaica 1801 
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Joseph Foster Barham II 
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Considerations on the Abolition of Negro Slavery: And the means of Practically Effecting It 1823 
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Pro-compensated abolition pamphlet calling for state expropriation of the enslaved people for £64MM and of the land and equipment for a further £64MM. Described the enslaved people as unfit for...
Augustus Hardin Beaumont 
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Slave Laws of Jamaica; with Proceedings and Documents relative thereto 1828 
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xiii + 263 pp. A pro-slavery tract. Title information includes: 'Contains the complete slave codes of 1816 and 1826, the adoption of which was virtually forced upon the Jamaican...
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Whig Nullities: or, A Review of a Pamphlet attributed to The Right Hon. John Cam Hobhouse... 1837 
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Full title: Whig Nullities: or, A Review of a Pamphlet attributed to The Right Hon. John Cam Hobhouse, M.P. for Nottingham, Privy Councillor, &c. &c. Entitled, “Domestic Policy of...
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Adventures of two Americans [i.e. Arthur and Augustus Hardin Beaumont] in the siege of Brussels, September, 1830. By one of them [i.e. A. H. Beaumont?] 1830 
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The Consolidated Slave Law, Passed the 22nd December, 1826 . . . with a Commentary, Shewing the Difference between the new law and the repealed enactments, marginal notes . . . 1827 
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A pro-slavery tract. Includes extracts from the Code Rural of Hayti. Copy in...
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The Jamaica Petition for Representation in the British House of Commons or for Independence 1831 
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24 pp. A pro-slavery tract. Urges independence if Parliament interferes in Jamaican affairs. Copy in the Library of Congress. No copies in British Library or Goldsmiths...
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Compensation to Slave Owners Fairly Considered, in an Appeal to the Common Sense of the People of England 1826 
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A pro-slavery tract. Urges full compensation. 4 edns. Published in 1826. Copies in BL and Goldsmiths...
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Compensation, Manumission, and Abolition of Flogging Females ... 1831 
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A pro-slavery tract. Proposes reform as a desperate measure to prevent abolition of slavery. Exceptionally scarce. No copy in the British Library or the Goldsmiths collection, University of...
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Ambassadors: what do we pay them for? A question for the people 1836 
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52pp. Copy in...
William Beckford of Somerley 
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A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica 1790 
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Remarks Upon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica: Impartially Made from a Local Experience of Nearly Thirteen Years in that Island 1788 
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William Thomas Beckford 
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Vathek, an Arabian Tale 1786 
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Hon. George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley 
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Berkeley Castle, an historical romance 1836 
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Reminiscences of a Huntsman 1854 
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Sandron Hall, or, the Days of Queen Anne 1840 
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Tales of Life and Death 1870 
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Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand: their legends and their lives 1867 
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Fact against Fiction. The habits and treatment of animals practically considered; hydrophobia and distemper; with some remarks on Darwin 1874 
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A Month in the Forests of France. [With illustrations by John Leech.] 1857 
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My Life and Recollections 1865-66 
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Cf. Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge, Baron Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Reply to some Passages in a Book entitled 'My Life and Recollections, by the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley.' By the other...
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The English sportsman in the western prairies 1861 
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Love and the Lion. [A poem.] 1857 
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A Pamphlet on the French and Prussian War, written in ... January, 1871, while events were passing 1871 
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The Potato Disease; its origin, nature, and cure; in a letter to the Earl of Derby 1854 
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Reply to the Press, and its Reviewers Reviewed, in defence of the Game Laws 1845 
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A Pamphlet in Defence of the Game Laws, in reply to the assailants; and on their effects upon the morals of the poor 1845 
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Two Letters addressed to the Landed and Manufacturing Interests of Great Britain and Ireland, on the just maintenance of Free Trade 1850 
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14pp. A defence of protectionism and a modest corn law to protect the agrarian interest. An important part of his argument is that the West Indian colonies are being sacrificed to...
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A Pamphlet, dedicated to the Noblemen, Gentlemen and Sportsmen, of England, Ireland, and Scotland ... in reply to a prize essay by the Rev. John Styles, D.D., on the claims of the animal creation to the humanity of man 1839 
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Francis Tresham, of Rushton, the Gunpowder Plot Conspirator. A tale of the seventeenth century 1879 
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Rev. William Marshall Harte

25th Nov 1776 - 1851

Resident clergyman, proponant of religious instruction for enslaved people.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.

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