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Hertfordshire and the Slave Trade

  • Anti-Slavery Society in Hitchin, 1825
    Anti-Slavery Society in Hitchin, 1825
    Hitchin was one of the first towns in Hertfordshire to set up its own Anti-Slavery Society.  Quakers in Hitchin had been ...
  • Do you take sugar?
    Do you take sugar?
    William Cowper and the abolition of the slave trade
  • Letters from anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce to Abel Smith
    Letters from anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce to Abel Smith
    Letters from William Wilberforce to Abel Smith, 1822-30 Abel Smith of Woodhall Park, Watton-at-Stone, is 33 when the aging Wilberforce writes ...
  • Petition from Hertford and North Herts re the abolition of slavery, 1830
    Petition from Hertford and North Herts re the abolition of slavery, 1830
    This petition was sent by Hertfordshire freeholders to William Hale, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, calling for a county meeting to petition Parliament ...
  • Petitions from Hemel Hempstead re the abolition of slavery, 1830
    Petitions from Hemel Hempstead re the abolition of slavery, 1830
    Two petitions sent from Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, and the surrounding area.  The first calls for the ‘effectual mitigation’ or gradual abolition ...
  • Thundridge Primary School and the Thomas Clarkson Monument
    Thundridge Primary School and the Thomas Clarkson Monument
    A school project as part of the Hertfordshire Hidden Histories project
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