Details

Subject(s)

• Orders in council [Browse]
• Slavery—Government policy—Great Britain [Browse]
• Slavery—Government policy—West Indies, British [Browse]
• Enslaved persons—Emancipation—Guyana [Browse]
• Enslaved persons—Legal status, laws, etc—West Indies, British [Browse]

Related name

• Greville, Charles, 1794-1865 [Browse]
• Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons [Browse]
• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]
• Wilberforce House Museum [Browse]

Series

Slavery, abolition & social justice. [More in this series]

Summary note

Testimony from proprietors of estates and slaves in Berbice and Demerara, at hearings to determine methods to compensate slave owners should emancipation occur. The hearings examined in detail factors affecting a slave's value, such as physical strength, mental acquirements, character, type of work in which the slave engaged.

Notes

• "Council Office, 7th March 1828"
• "Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 18 April 1828"
• "Return to an address of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 6th March 1828"
• At foot of cover: 261.
• Cover title.
• Submitted by C.C. Greville.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2013 (Slavery, abolition & social justice)

Location of originals

Wilberforce House Museum

Other title(s)

Minutes of evidence before Privy Council on Demerara and Berbice manumission

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