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D239 - FitzHerbert family of Tissington - [16th-20th cent]
- E - Estate records - 1380-1940
  - C - Caribbean Estates - 1683-1898
    - B - Turners Hall Sugar Plantation, Barbados - 1721-1889
      - 8 - Correspondence - 1721-1856
        
        2 - Later Eighteenth Century Correspondence - 1772-1801

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D239/M/E/20558
Title	Letter from Sir John Gay Alleyne to Sir William FitzHerbert:
Date	14 Jul 1791
Description	Welcomes FitzHerbert's "sensible and entertaining piece against the abolition of the African Slave Trade"; reports on the attempts of the legislature of Barbados to "settle the currency of our gold coin, so miserably mangled and clipt as it has been of late years ...".
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Turners Hall sugar plantation, Barbados
Archive Creator	FitzHerbert family of Tissington
Originals	Originals withdrawn
Copies	A digital copy of this item (taken from the microfilm M/701). is available on the public computers at the record office.
Term	Slavery
	Slaves
	Ethnic groups
	Forced labour
	Oppression
	Abolition of slavery
	Sugar plantations

Places

Place (click for further details)	Type
Barbados	Country
Turners Hall Plantation	Settlement

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