Details

Subject(s)

• Smith, John 1792?-1824—Trials, litigation, etc [Browse]
• Henriqueta (Brig) [Browse]
• Ship's papers [Browse]
• Slave rebellions—Guyana—Demerara [Browse]
• Slave ships—Brazil [Browse]
• Slave trade—Brazil—History—Sources [Browse]
• Slave trade—Suriname—History—Sources [Browse]
• Slavery—Great Britain—Colonies—America—History—Sources [Browse]
• Slavery—Guyana—History—Sources [Browse]
• Slavery—South America—History—Sources [Browse]
• Enslaved persons—Emancipation—Great Britain—Colonies—History—Sources [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies—America—Administration—History—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]
• National Archives (Great Britain) [Browse]

Series

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

Compiled/​Created

1823-1829.

Summary note

Electronic reproduction of material selected from Colonial Office and Foreign Office files FO 84, FO 315, CO 111 in the National Archives (U.K.). Includes: Foreign Office correspondence with British consuls and commissioners in Rio de Janeiro and Surinam on the slave trade in Brazil and Surinam, 1825-1826; a volume of miscellaneous papers and letters on Demerara and Essequibo, 1823; papers from the Brazilian slaver Henriqueta; papers on the Demerara and Essequibo uprising, 1823, including Major General Murray's Despatch no. 249, Proceedings of Court Martial against missionary Smith.

Notes

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Location of originals

National Archives, Kew

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