WILBERFORCE: SLAVERY, RELIGION AND POLITICS

Series Two: Papers of William Wilberforce 91759-1833) and related slavery and anti-slavery materials

from Wilberforce House, Hull

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

Background

Wilberforce House booklet

Listings of material held at Wilberforce House

Material from the Exhibition Rooms (excluding Wilberforce Diary and Slaver’s Log)

Model of slave ship (photograph)

etc

etc

BOX 5 Wilberforce Pictures

REEL 2

William Wilberforce: Early Career

BOX 1 William Wilberforce: Early Ephemera, 1707-1805

BOX 2 William Wilberforce Election Ephemera, 1807

REEL 3

Slavery

Slaver’s log (from Exhibition)

BOX 10 Slavery Ephemera, 1730’s-1860’s

BOX 3 Slavery Pictures/Cuttings, 1830’s-1840’s

REEL 4

The Slavery Debate

BOX 11 Pro and Anti-Slavery Ephemera, 1770-1840

BOX 4 Anti-Slavery Ephemera, 1830’s-1840’s

REEL 5

William Wilberforce: The Campaign to Abolish Slavery

William Wilberforce Diary, 1814-1823 (from Exhibition)

REEL 6

William Wilberforce: The Campaign to Abolish Slavery

BOX 13 Misc volumes concerning Slavery & Government Legislation, 1698-1828

REEL 7

William Wilberforce: The Campaign to Abolish Slavery

BOX 13 (cont) Misc volumes concerning Slavery & Government Legislation, 1698-1828

BOX 6 Slavery Cuttings and Wilberforce’s Government Papers, 1770-1831

REEL 8

William Wilberforce: The Campaign to Abolish Slavery

BOX 16 William Wilberforce letters, 1832-1833

Miscellaneous William Wilberforce letters from other archives in Hull

REEL 9

Correspondence of other Abolitionists

BOX 7 Letters of Granville Sharp and others, 1750’s-1840’s
(excluding King Correspondence, 1786-1843 - on next reel)

REEL 10

Plantation Records

BOX 7 (end) King Correspondence, 1786-1843

BOX 12 King Correspondence, 1820’s-1840’s

REEL 11

Plantation Records

BOX 12 (cont) King Correspondence, 1820’s-1840’s

REEL 12

Plantation Records

BOX 9 Plantation Journals, 1826-1840

REEL 13

Plantation Records

BOX 8 Plantation Journals, 1837-1844

REEL 14

William Wilberforce: Commemorations

BOX 14 Commemorations: 1934, 1959

BOX 15 Commemorations: 1934, 1959

REEL 15

Slavery Periodicals

BOX 19 The British Emancipator, 1837-1840

REEL 16

William Wilberforce Correspondence

SUPPLEMENT: 216 letters, 1792-1857

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