Microform Collections in Stauffer Library
ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTION: 18TH-19TH CENTURIES
Description
Originally from the Library of the Society of Friends, this collection contains anti-slavery tracts, pamphlets, and journals pertaining to the abolition movement for ending the African slave trade. The collection is compiled as follows:
- Reels 1-14: Anti-Slavery Tracts
- Reels 15-20: Miscellaneous Tracts and Pamphlets
- Reels 21-22: Anti-Slavery Journals
- Reels 23-24: The Thompson-Clarkson Collection [see note below]
- Reel 25: Chronological Bibliography of Anti-Slavery Tracts [see note below]
Microform Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Microfilms at HT857. A58 1978t
Guide/Index Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Reference at HT857 .A58 1978t Guide (also available online, Queen's-access only)
Collection Status Complete: 25 of 25 reels, plus guide.
Notes
- The Thompson-Clarkson Collection
"This collection is intended to represent the complete source materials of Thomas Clarkson's This history of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the aboliton of the African slave-trade (2 volumes, 1808) [available in Stauffer Library -- check QCAT for location and call number]. It was put together by Thomas Thompson (1776-1861), a pharmaceutical and manufacturing chemist of Liverpool, who was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends. he tried to collect some printed material, an autograph letter (or, failing that, at least a signature) and, where possible, a portrait of ever person mentioned in the work." -- Publisher's guide to the Anti-Slavery Collection, last page - Chronological Bibliography of Anti-Slavery Tracts
"This is a chronological catalogue of printed anti-slavery pamphlets 1760-1855. It contains about 1,200 entries [and] is in the form of about 300 unnumbered pages of typescript with emendations in ink and pencil. [..] It was compiled by the amalgamation of several lists: 37 volumes of Slavery Tracts in the Friends House Library; other anti-slavery pamphlets in the Friends House Library; anti-slavery pamphlets at the Anti-Slavery Society; the bibliographies of two theses on slavery by Patrick C. Lipscomb and Joyce Birt; and Ragatz' Guide for the Study of British Caribbean [sic] History 1763-1834, Washington, D.C., 1932." -- Publisher's guide to the Anti-Slavery Collection, last page
Last revised: 9 August 2006