Box Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
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Contains 144 Results:
Handwritten poem, 'The Captive', [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/41
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...
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]
Printed engraving and poem, 'The negro mother’s appeal', [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/42
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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...
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]
Poem, 'Africa imploring Britain to send her children the gospel', 1829
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/43
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Handwritten poem titled 'Africa imploring Britain to send her children the gospel', signed by James Montgomery, Sheffield, with a note below: 'The above lines were written in the Album of the Revd. Barnabas Shaw, Missionary to South Africa - there are ten thousand slaves in Cape-Town, and thirty thousand in the colony.'.
Dates:
1829
Extract of speech by Denman, [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/44
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Handwritten extract of a speech by Denman in May 1828, with an ink and pencil sketch of an enslaved family.
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]
Facts and testimonials to human tyranny, June 1829
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/45
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Handwritten text titled 'Facts and testimonials to human tyranny', by [?] Craig, Sheffield.
Dates:
June 1829
Handwritten sonnets by Mrs. R. Taylor, December 1829
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/46
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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...
Dates:
December 1829
Handwritten poem by Richard William Hamilton, Leeds, 3 January 1830
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/47
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...
Dates:
3 January 1830
Essay, 'Moral degradation of slaves and slave-holders', 13 April 1830
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/48
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Handwritten essay titled 'Moral degradation of slaves and slave-holders', by Edward Baines, Leeds.
Dates:
13 April 1830
Handwritten text by Thomas Scales, 1828
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/49
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...
Dates:
1828
Pencil and ink sketch, [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/50
Scope and Contents
Pencil and ink sketch of an enslaved family.
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]
Extract from a poem, 5 June 1832
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/51
Scope and Contents
Handwritten extract of a poem by Revd. [?] Jones, Sheffield.
Dates:
5 June 1832
Handwritten 'Lines by S. Buckley', 5 October 1831
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/52
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...
Dates:
5 October 1831
Poem, 'Negro slavery', 9 July 1832
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/53
Scope and Contents
Handwritten poem titled 'Negro slavery', by Geo. Thompson, Sheffield.
Dates:
9 July 1832
Handwritten text by Charles J. [Jewell], 27 July 1832
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/54
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...
Dates:
27 July 1832
Engraving and poem, [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/55
Scope and Contents
Black and white engraving of a man and woman praying, with a printed poem beginning 'While this tawny Ethiop prayeth…', by Charles Lamb.
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]
Poem, 'An appeal in behalf of the slaves', 30 August 1833
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/56
Scope and Contents
Handwritten poem titled 'An appeal in behalf of the slaves' by Frederic Fysh.
Dates:
30 August 1833
Handwritten poem, 'I join with willing heart and hand…', 8 March 1838
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/57
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...
Dates:
8 March 1838
Extract from 'West Indies', 17 December 1838
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/58
Scope and Contents
Handwritten extract from James Montgomery's poem 'West Indies', but not written by Montgomery.
Dates:
17 December 1838
Pencil sketch, [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/59
Scope and Contents
Pencil sketch of an enslaved person praying.
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]
Pencil sketch and text, 'The dying slave to his master', [1824 - 1838]
Item — Box: Montgomery Manuscripts Box 1
Reference code: 19/1/1/60
Scope and Contents
Pencil and ink sketch of two enslaved people, with a handwritten poem titled 'The Dying Slave to his Master', by Dr. D. Thompson.
Dates:
[1824 - 1838]