Monthly Archives: April 1789
Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 16 April 1789
16/04/1789
During 1788, parliament received hundreds of petitions from across the country calling for the immediate abolition of the slave trade. In same year, a bill by the abolitionist MP, William Dolben, had imposed regulations on slave traders to do with space and conditions on the Middle Passage between Africa and the Caribbean. By 1789, William […]
Posted in Abolitionism, Defence of slavery, Enslaved people, Kingston, Slave trade abolition, The Letters, Trade Tagged Chaloner Arcedeckne, Simon Taylor, William Dolben, William Wilberforce Comments Off on Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 16 April 1789