Primary Sources: United Kingdom (U.K.): Slavery & Abolition

A research guide from the UK National Archives. This guide provides access to background information as well as primary digitized records on Britain and the transatlantic slave trade.

A research guide from the UK archives designed to give "an overview of the major original sources at The National Archives that relate to aspects of the slave trade, slavery and unfree labour in the British Caribbean and American colonies."

"The history of the British Caribbean is explored in this exhibition through government documents, photographs and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s and discovered during a cataloguing project at The National Archives of the United Kingdom." Includes sections on slavery.

for promoting the mitigation and ultimate abolition of Negro slavery.

Series 1 - vols. 1-6
Series 2 - vols. 1-7
Series 3 - vols. 1-22
Series 4 - vols. 1-29
Series 5 - vols. 1-8

held at 27, New Broad Street, London, the 4th of January, 1870, the follow-minute (stet) was unanimously adopted: ..

A report of a public meeting, jointly convened by the Aborigines protective society and the British and foreign anti-slavery society, which was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 29th April, 1903.

for the abolition of the slave-trade throughout the world : presented to the general meeting held in the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle Street, London, on Monday, May 22, 1848 : George William Alexander, Esq., in the chair

called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, and held in London, from Friday, June 12th, to Tuesday, June 23rd, 1840

called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and held in London from Tuesday June 13th to Tuesday June 20th, 1843

furnished by the correspondence of Lewis Tappan and others with the British and foreign anti-slavery society, edited with introduction and notes, by Annie Heloise Abel and Frank J. Klingberg.

in the Salle Herz, on the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh August, 1867, under the presidency of Mons. Édouard Laboulaye.

during eighteen months, from January, 1851, to June, 1852, with a statement of the reason for its separation from the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society

for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade throughout the world : presented to the general meeting held in Exeter Hall, on Friday, May 13th, 1842 : the most honourable the Marquis of Clanricarde in the chair : with an appendix, list of contributions

throughout the British Dominions