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D3287 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - [13th-20th cent]
- BSA - British South Africa Company
  - 9 - North Western Rhodesia

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3287/BSA/9/200
Title	Letter (last page only) from P.L.G., Rue Broussais, Dinan (C. du N., France), to [?-----]: must avoid direct administration of Northern Western Rhodesia and rule through Lewanika; this will be difficult once the slavery question is encountered.
Date	c1900
Description	Gell writes that “the country is absolutely unripe for any sudden revolution abolishing the custom of Slavery. Yet no one can doubt that if our Commissioners enforced the rights of the Slave owner or failed to treat the Slave as a freeman, our Charter would be in danger. So long as we can keep Lewanika in power, we avoid serious responsibilities of this sort, and also postpone a heavy increase in our expenditure”.
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	British South Africa Company
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Term	Slavery
	Slaves
	Ethnic groups
	Oppression
	Forced labour
	Abolition of slavery
	Social reform
	Indigenous populations
	Black African peoples

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