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| CONTENT WARNING | OFFENSIVE AND OPPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
This catalogue 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. | D77/4/13/1 |
| Title | Newspaper cuttings and transcriptions |
| Date | 1753-1844 |
| Description | Includes:
Cutting re the 'Life of Milton'
Cutting re 'Arguments on the Negro cause'
Transcribed prayers
Letter in French, 1759 [probably a copy made by Sir Roger Gresley]
'W N Gresley's Verses', 1819 [Latin] |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Gresley family of Drakelow |
| Term | Slavery |
| Slaves |
| Forced labour |
| Ethnic groups |
| Oppression |
| Slave emancipation |
| Black peoples |