The petition of Stephen Fuller, Esquire, agent for Jamaica / Stephen Fuller.

By: Publication details: 1792.Description: 4 pages : black and white ; 21 x 33 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • sheet
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • MS 1731
Summary: This is a petition from S. Fuller, agent for Jamaica, to the House of Commons about the slave trade and the abolition of slavery, with extract of the Assembly's petition, dated November 4, 1791 and of the Assembly's letter dated November 5, 1791.The petition made reference to the military protection against slave riots, which have been experienced in St. Domingo. There is also an extract of a letter from Mr. Gordon in Bristol dated May 2, 1791 about the motion of Wilberforce against the slave trade.
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This is a petition from S. Fuller, agent for Jamaica, to the House of Commons about the slave trade and the abolition of slavery, with extract of the Assembly's petition, dated November 4, 1791 and of the Assembly's letter dated November 5, 1791.The petition made reference to the military protection against slave riots, which have been experienced in St. Domingo. There is also an extract of a letter from Mr. Gordon in Bristol dated May 2, 1791 about the motion of Wilberforce against the slave trade.

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