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| CONTENT WARNING | OFFENSiVE AND OPPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
This catalogue entry and the archives it describes contain highly offensive and oppressive language. Some of the language has been included in the catalogue description to publicly reflect the attitudes of the time the records were written. |
| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D3155/WH/2995 |
| Title | Comments on a pamphlet on the trade in enslaved African people |
| Date | 1826 |
| Description | Mar 1826. Copy letter from Rev T Gisborne of Durham to Wilmot Horton, with a copy of Wilmot Horton's reply. Compliments and opinion on Wilmot Horton's pamphlet on slavery in the West Indies |
| Level | file |
| 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 |
| Copies | A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Term | Slavery |
| Slaves |
| Ethnic groups |
| Forced labour |
| Oppression |
| Archivist Note | This catalogue entry has been amended in line with cataloguing procedures to address offensive and oppressive language, 10 November 2022 KM |
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