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C Rawley to William Wiseman, and attachments

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

  • A Poetical Epistle to the King of Hayti
  • Considérations diverses sur Haïti
  • Negro anthology: 1931-1933
  • The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time...
  • Lynching announcements
  • Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748.
  • The speech of William Wilberforce, esq., representative for the county of York, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the question of the abolition of the slave trade. To which are added, the resolutions then moved, and a short sketch of the speeches of the other members
  • An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum
  • Comparative statement with reference to a British claim against the United States, for the illegal seizure and condemnation of the ship "Francis and Eliza", and an American claim against Her Majesty's government, for the seizure and liberation of slaves on board two American vessels stranded upon the Bahamas, for which latter claim the proprietors of the slaves have lately received a large compensation from Her Majesty's government
  • Véritable origine des troubles de S.-Domingue : et des différentes causes qui les ont produits
  • Facts and documents connected with the late insurrection in Jamaica, and the violations of civil and religious liberty arising out of it
  • Jamaica, as it was, as it is, and as it may be: comprising interesting topics for absent proprietors, merchants &c., and valuable hints to persons intending to emigrate to the island: also an authentic narrative of the Negro insurrection in 1831; with a faithful detail of the manners, customs and habits of the colonists, and a description of the country, climate, productions, &c., including an abridgment of the slave law. By a retired military officer [Microfilm]
  • The foreign slave trade: the source of political power, of material progress, of social integrity, and of social emancipation to the South
  • Seizure of American vessels: slave trade. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State in relation to the seizure of American vessels by British armed cruisers, under the pretense that they were engaged in the slave trade; and also correspondence with Consul Trist, upon the subject of the slave trade, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st ultimo
  • A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans; shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves...
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Haiti: Miscellaneous Collections

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Fugitive slaves - Turks & Caicos Islands

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Title
C Rawley to William Wiseman, and attachments
Names
Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850 (Author)
Collection

Haiti: Miscellaneous Collections

Fugitive slaves - Turks & Caicos Islands

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1776 - 1850
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc MG 119
Shelf locator: SCM 88-77
Shelf locator: Box 1, Folder 15
Topics
Haiti
Haiti -- History
Saint-Domingue
Genres
Documents
Description
Signed instructions, with attachments, from C. Rawley, Rear Admiral amd Commander-in-Chief of the British fleet in Jamaica, to William Wiseman on a mission to Haiti to negotiate the return of fugitive slaves who fled there from salt ponds in the Turks Islands. The attachments, a file of five contemporary copies, include three letters from Daniel Basome, British agent in the Turks Islands; an affidavit from Joseph Frith, a resident of these islands dispatched to Haiti to identify the fugitives, "having a personal knowledge of them;" and a brief letter from Haiti's president Jean-Pierre Boyer, declaring any individual on Haitian soil automatically free and beyond pursuit.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
French
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16542740
MSS Unit ID: 20921
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 29856260-c6d1-012f-8dcf-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1776: Created (Approximate)
  • 1776: Creator Born
  • 1850: Creator Died
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2019: Found by you!
  • 2020

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "C Rawley to William Wiseman, and attachments" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1776 - 1850. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/afdc5490-e588-0130-95ee-58d385a7bbd0

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "C Rawley to William Wiseman, and attachments" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 23, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/afdc5490-e588-0130-95ee-58d385a7bbd0

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1776 - 1850). C Rawley to William Wiseman, and attachments Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/afdc5490-e588-0130-95ee-58d385a7bbd0

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C Rawley to William Wiseman, and attachments