Bundle of letters from T.Edwards to R.O. Cave about the Anti-Slavery question

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Reference code(s): 23D57 3513-3514

Title: Bundle of letters from T.Edwards to R.O. Cave about the Anti-Slavery question

Date(s): 1830 - 1830

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 7 letters

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Name of creator(s): T. Edwards

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Scope and content: The collection comprises of seven letters on slavery written in January 1830 and one pamphlet entitled 'Emancipation of the Children of Slaves'. There is a letter from Edwards to Cave advocating local peitions against slavery, discussing the mode of publicaton and distribution of pamphlets, reporting on the book 'History of the West Indies' by Bryan Edwards and advising Cave to get in touch with Sir Alex Johnston, formerly chief-justice in Ceylon, who is familiar with the difficulties assoicated with the abolition of slavery of children in Ceylon in 1816, and a letter from Edwards to Cave warning that Caves motion may be side-tracked by the appointment of a committee on West Indian Slavery

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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