Scope and Contents From the File: Album titled 'Negro’s Album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, [Sheffield], 1828'. The first third of the album is printed material, and the rest are handwritten contributions in prose and verse by a number of different people, with several illustrations. James Montgomery contributes a number of poems, with notes.A handwritten note in the front of the album reads: 'N 1. Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society[.] It is particularly requested that no book belonging to this...

Scope and Contents From the File: Album titled 'Negro’s Album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, [Sheffield], 1828'. The first third of the album is printed material, and the rest are handwritten contributions in prose and verse by a number of different people, with several illustrations. James Montgomery contributes a number of poems, with notes.A handwritten note in the front of the album reads: 'N 1. Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society[.] It is particularly requested that no book belonging to this...

Scope and Contents From the File: Album titled 'Negro’s Album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, [Sheffield], 1828'. The first third of the album is printed material, and the rest are handwritten contributions in prose and verse by a number of different people, with several illustrations. James Montgomery contributes a number of poems, with notes.A handwritten note in the front of the album reads: 'N 1. Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society[.] It is particularly requested that no book belonging to this...

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Black and white engraving of an enslaved person, titled 'O my great massa in heaven. Pity me and bless my children'.

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Image and description titled 'The Spanish Schooner, Josefa Maracayera, of 900 tons, 21 seamen, belonging to the Havannah, captured by the driver, Capt. Wolrige, in the Bight of Benin, on the Coast of Africa, on the 19th of 8th mo. (Aug.) 1822, with 216 male slaves on board'.

Scope and Contents From the File: Album titled 'Negro’s Album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, [Sheffield], 1828'. The first third of the album is printed material, and the rest are handwritten contributions in prose and verse by a number of different people, with several illustrations. James Montgomery contributes a number of poems, with notes.A handwritten note in the front of the album reads: 'N 1. Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society[.] It is particularly requested that no book belonging to this...

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Article titled 'Negro slavery. Argument, 'That the colonial slaves are better off than the British Peasantry', answered from the Royal Jamaica Gazette. By Thomas Clarkson', in the Christian Observer, August 1824.

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Handwritten poem titled 'Home', with a note at the end reading 'Copied for the friend of Africa, James Montgomery, by Samuel Bundy. Aged 10 years, pupil in the African Free School, Lombard Street, Philadelphia.'

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Page reproduced from Thomas Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 2nd Volume, with an engraving and description titled 'Reasons for the Abolition of Slavery'.

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Handwritten poem titled 'Love', with a note at the end reading 'Copied for the friend of Africa, James Montgomery, by Francis Chew, a pupil in the African Free School, Lombard Street, Philadelphia.'

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Engraving and text reproduced from the Royal Jamaica Gazette, 18 September 1824, with commentary and a quote from Locke.

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Letter titled 'Slavery in the British West Indies', signed 'C. T.', to the Devizes Gazette.

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Article titled 'The West Indies as they are; or a real picture of slavery, but more particularly as it exists in the island of Jamaica', by Rev. Richard Bickell, in the Christian Observer, March 1825.

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Black and white engraving of an enslaved woman and her child, titled 'The driver’s whip unfolds its torturing coil. She only sulks – go lash her to her toil'.

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Handwritten poem beginning 'And from the pray’r of want and plaint of woe', by James Beattie.

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Map of the world, titled 'Chart of the world, / on Mercator's Projection. / Illustrative of the impolicy of slavery', with a description below about sugar growing.

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Advertisement for the Work Bags of the Ladies’ Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, the money raised being put towards circulating information about the slave trade and supporting enslaved and formerly enslaved people.

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Advertisements from the Jamaica Gazette, with commentary.

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Handwritten poem about [Granville] Sharp by C. R. (Catharine Read) of Wincobank, Sheffield.

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Handwritten poem about [William] Wilberforce by S. R. (Samuel Roberts).