1751 - 1823
From Moffat, Scotland. Quaker. Had been secretary to the Governor of Barbados for 13 years. Became an abolitionist as a result of his experiences of the brutality with which the enslaved were treated.
See among others, H. T. Dickinson, ‘Dickson, William...', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online; Iain Whyte, Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838 (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
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Mitigation of Slavery in Two Parts. Part I. Letters and Papers of the Late Hon. Joshua Steele; Part II. Letters to Thomas Clarkson by William... 1814
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
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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CITING THIS RECORD:
'William Dickson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643121 [accessed 26th November 2024].
