Album / Female Society, for the Relief of Negro Slaves

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[Image of chained slave with excerpt of poem by Cowper] -- Third report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the relief of British Negro Slaves, established, April 8, 1825 -- Female Society, for the Relief of Negro Slaves. Explanation of the contents of the Society's album ... -- Extracts from the Royal Gazette ... vol. 1, no. 10, from Saturday, March 1, to Saturday, March 8, 1828 -- Negro slavery : argument, that the colonial slaves are better off than the British peasantry, answered, from the Royal Jamaica Gazette / by Thomas Clarkson -- [image of slave with hands raised to heaven in prayer] -- On the flogging of women with stanzas of poem / by Charlotte Elizabeth -- Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly Estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1824 -- Three points of comparison between the value of slave labour and free labour -- Extract from an American Gazette, entitled Freedom's journal : edited by a man of colour ... -- [Image of slave with child and overseer] -- And from the pray'r of want and plaint of woe, O never, never turn away thine ear ... [anonymous anti-slavery poem in two stanzas] -- The worn-out Negro slave -- The representation of the brig Vigilante from Nantes [folded plate showing plan of ship, how slaves are stacked in the ship, and engravings of locks] -- Slaves exposed for sale [engraving on gray paper] -- The Mode of flogging slaves [engraving on cream paper] -- The separation of a family of slaves after being seized & sold upon a warrant of destraint for their masters debts [engraving on gray paper] -- Slaves chained together by the neck and driven to work on the roads [engraving on cream paper] -- West India sugar -- British slavery : with a poem by Hannah More -- But soon as approaching the land, that goddess-like woman he view'd [four line poem with image of kneeling slaves, overseer, and female apparition, engraved on pink paper] -- Remarks on the decrease of the West India slave population, chiefly as connected with the culture of sugar and the prices of produce -- [Engraving of female slave and sick child printed on gray paper] -- Nergo woman, who sittest pining in captivity and weeping over thy sick child [engraved poem printed on gray paper] -- Extracts from the Royal Gazette ... vol. 48, no. 40, from Saturday, September 30, to Saturday, October 7, 1826 -- Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery [hand-colored map] -- The destruction of life in the British colonies -- Reasons for using East India sugar -- Phoebe [engraving, with text, of slave with chained hands raised in prayer on recto, and "Slavery in the British West Indies", signed C.T. reprinted from Devizes Gazette, Sept. 10, 1825, on verso] -- An extract from colonel Arthur's letter -- The second report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the relief of British Negro slaves, established, 1825.But soon as approaching the land, that goddess-like woman he view'd [four line poem with image of kneeling slaves, overseer, and female apparition] -- [Image of chained slave with excerpt of poem by Cowper] -- An extract from colonel Arthur's letter -- The second report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the relief of British Negro slaves, established, 1825. -- [image of slave with hands raised to heaven in prayer] -- [Engraving of female slave and sick child] -- Nergo woman, who sittest pining in captivity and weeping over thy sick child [engraved poem] -- Extracts from the Royal Gazette ... vol. 48, no. 40, from Saturday, September 30, to Saturday, October 7, 1826 -- Negro slavery : argument, that the colonial slaves are better off than the British peasantry, answered, from the Royal Jamaica Gazette / by Thomas Clarkson -- Phoebe [engraving, with text, of slave with chained hands raised in prayer on recto, and "Slavery in the British West Indies", signed C.T. reprinted from Devizes Gazette, Sept. 10, 1825, on verso] -- [Image of slave with child and overseer] -- And from the pray'r of want and plaint of woe, O never, never turn away thine ear ... [anonymous anti-slavery poem in two stanzas] -- Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery [hand-colored map] -- Ladies' Society, for the Relief of Negro Slaves. Card Explanatory of the contents of the Society's work bags and albums ... -- In the Jamaica Gazette of July 3, 1824, is contained the following advertisement ... -- Twenty-six points of comparison between Hebrew slavery, under the Mosaic dispensation ... and British colonial & American slavery, under Christian dispensation ... -- Extract from the 79th sermon of Dr. Dwight, president of Yale College ... -- Case of the Vigilante, a ship employed in the slave-trade ... -- The worn-out Negro slave.
Names
Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves (Author)
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938 (Former owner)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1823 - 1829
Place: Birmingham, England
Publisher: Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 326.4G-F
Topics
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain
Enslaved persons -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
Slavery -- West Indies, British
Sugar -- West Indies, British
Genres
Albums (Books)
Prints
Notes
Statement of responsibility: Female Society, for the Relief of Negro Slaves
Content: Title and imprint supplied by cataloger from introductory text page of album [in Sc Rare 326.4G-F copy, bound third of 32 items] reading: "Female Society, for the Relief of Negro Slaves. Explanation of the contents of the Society's album."
Content: "The money raised by the sale of the Society's work-bags, albums, portfolios, &c &c. is employed in circulating information in relieving neglected and deserted Negroes, and in promoting the education of British slaves"--cf. introductory page of text.
Content: "Albums cobbled together by the Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves conisted of anti-slavery pamphlets, parliamentary reports, excerpts of journals and magazines, indivdual issues of journals and magazines, and engraved illustrations of anti-slavery imagery. Each album was a bit different in its contents."--John Carter Brown Library catalog.
Ownership: Copy in Sc Rare 326.4G-F (accession no. B527325) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Physical Description
Extent: 1 volume : illustrations ; 27 cm
Engravings
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 26329296
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11668324
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0211f4d0-c62c-012f-9598-58d385a7bc34
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