Microforms Collections in Stauffer Library
ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY. SLAVE TRADE BOOK AND PAMPHLET COLLECTION, 1680-1865
Description
This collection was filmed from the Heartman Manuscript Collection: Manuscripts on Slavery, housed at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"The Xavier University of New Orleans, the only Black Catholic Institute of Higher Education in the United States, possesses in its library a substantial collection of Manuscripts relating to the North American slave trade during the period 1724-1897, including important documents from New Orleans dating from 1803 to early Reconstruction."
"Built up over 20 years by Charles F. Heartman, a Mississippi book-dealer, the Collection of over 4000 pieces provides a fascinating insight into the civil and legal status of enslaved blacks. The New Orleans Municipal records are an extremely valuable source of information on the work and leisure activities of the 19th century slaves, and the Xavier library also holds the only surviving manuscripts of official slave-auction records." -- -- from the back cover of the Reel Index
The present collection of 21 reels represents a total of 251 titles: 250 books and 1 serial. The index provides a reel-by-reel listing of the contents of the collection, which includes addresses, essays, debates in the House of Commons, petitions against the government, accounts of trials, descriptions of living conditions and Thomas Clarkson's 1808 The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
Microforms Location and Call Number Stauffer Library - Microfilms; HT857.S42 1985t
Index/Guide Location and Call Number Stauffer Library - Reference; HT857 .S42 1985t Guide
Collection Status Complete (21 of 21 Reels, plus Guide)
Notes
- Thomas Clarkson's original 1808 The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (2 Volumes) is available in Stauffer books, check QCAT for call number and status.
- For more information on the topic, or to view the Thompson-Clarkson collection of source materials used for The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, see also Anti-Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
- For more information on the Heartman Manuscript Collection, visit the Xavier University Library Resource Centre website.