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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D3155/WH/2941 |
| Title | Confidential papers on the West India question |
| Date | 1827 |
| Description | 1 hard-backed volume, containing largely copy items, Sep-Nov 1827. Divided into sections (as D3155/WH 2940) with contents as follows:-
Printed statements of proceedings and correspondence relating to compulsory manumission (see D3155/WH 2938)
Precis of Ld Bathurst's correspondence with Demerara, Oct 1827
Private letter (with reply) from Wilmot Horton to W Smith, MP, Oct 1827
Minutes relating to conversations with Mr Macdonnell - author of `Observations on Negro Slavery' and secretary to the Demerara and Berbice Association, Oct 1827
Queries addressed to Mr D Power by James Innes, with replies, Oct 1827
Mr Jabez Henry's opinion (see D3155/WH 2813) on the Spanish law of Manumission, with remarks on Mr Adams' speech, Nov 1827
Lord Bexley's communication to the Council, Nov 1827, relating to the Demerara and Berbice manumission Order in Council
Lithograph copy letters to W Smith MP (see above) and to Mr Buxton (see D3155/WH 2757) Oct-Nov 1827
Correspondence with the Attorney-General from Wilmot Horton (copies), Oct-Nov 1827
Copy letter, Maj Moody (see D3155/WH 2849) to Wilmot Horton, Nov 1827
Proofs referring to Wilmot Horton's letters to the Attorney-General, containing references to other ministerial statements and letters Copy letters to Mr Buxton (with enclosures) Nov 1827, James Stephen (with reply) Nov 1827, Major Moody Nov 1827
Queries to the West Indians - witnesses required before the Privy Council
Mr Amyot's answers to Mr Macaulay's suggestions relating to evidence from the Registry Office, Nov 1827
Minutes of Wilmot Horton taken at the Privy Council, with Lord Bexley's answers
Copy letter from Col Young (? see D3155/WH 2903) to Wilmot Horton, Sep 1827
Newspaper extract received from Mr Drummond |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Sir Robert John Wilmot Horton, baronet (1784-1841), Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1821-1828, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon 1831-1837 |
| Wilmot-Horton family of Osmaston and Catton, Derbyshire |
| Format | Document |
| Printed |
| Term | Slavery |
| Slave emancipation |
| Black peoples |
| Slaves |
| Forced labour |
| Oppression |
| Ethnic groups |
| British Empire |
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