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A particular account of the commencement and progress of the insurrection of the Negroes in St Domingo, which began August 1791, being a translation of the speech made to the national assembly 3rd November 1791 by the deputies from the General Assembly of the French part of St Domingo, 2nd edition, with notes and an appendix containing extracts from other authentic papers (London 1792

Reference: Binnsvol016-009 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: Unknown Year: 1792
An account of the rebellion in St Domingo by the beaten French, from a translation. The pamphlet includes a condemnation of the revolt and a criticism of the antislavery movement in France… Keep reading
 Unknown 1792 26

A Summary of the evidence producted before Committee of the House of Commons..

Reference: Suppvol082b-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 82A - 82B Author: Unknown Year: 1792
Unknown 1792 5

A very new Pamphlet indeed! being The truth addressed to the people at large, containing some strictures on the English Jacobins, and the evidence of Lord McCartney and others, before the House of Lords, respecting the Slave Trade

Reference: Binnsvol012-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 12 Author: M'CARTNEY (Lord) Year: 1792
Witness statements by the planter class in Jamaica in support of the slave trade stating that the enslaved Africans were treated well, the ‘savagery of Africans in their homeland; that kidnapping never… Keep reading
 M'CARTNEY (Lord) 1792 8

Clarendon’s accurate and copious account of the debates of the house of Commons, on Wilberforce’s motion for an abolition of the slave trade April 1792

Reference: Binnsvol016-006 Volume: BINNS VOL. 16 Author: WILBERFORCE (William) Year: 1792
Wilberforce puts forward his motion to end the slave trade citing examples of the cruel nature of the trade in all its manifestations, and the result of the motion, which was that… Keep reading
 WILBERFORCE (William) 1792 25

Fugitive thoughts on the African slave trade, interspersed with cursory remarks on the manners, customs and commerce of the African and American Indians

Reference: Binnsvol005-004 Volume: BINNS VOL. 5 Author: FUGITIVE Year: 1792
Pamphlet that supports the slave trade because of the financial benefits to Britain; criticism of abolitionists; assertion that that claims of brutality are false; that people ought to look to the suffering… Keep reading
 FUGITIVE 1792 36

No Rum! No Sugar! or The Voice of Blood, being half an hour’s conversation between an Negro and an English gentleman, showing the horrible nature of the slave trade and pointing out an easy and effectual method of terminating it, by an act of the people (London 1792)

Reference: Binnsvol023-003 Volume: BINNS VOL. 23 Author: Unknown Year: 1792
A short play showing an imagined conversation between an Englishman and an enslaved African, who educates the Englishman on the evils of slavery: Cushoo: Ah! Massa buckra, pity poor Negroman… Keep reading
 Unknown 1792 12

Old truths and Established Facts, being and answer to a “Very New Pamphlet indeed!”

Reference: Binnsvol012-003a Volume: BINNS VOL. 12 Author: Unknown Year: 1792
Pro Slavery reply to “A very new Pamphlet indeed!”
 Unknown 1792 7

The debate on a motion for the abolition of the Slave-Trade..

Reference: Binnsvol033-001 Volume: BINNS VOL. 33 Author: Unknown Year: 1792
Unknown 1792 96

The Debate on a motion for the abolition of the Slave-Trade..

Reference: Suppvol191-001 Volume: SUPP. VOL. 191 Author: Unknown Year: 1792
Unknown 1792 97

The speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt on a motion..

Reference: Binnsvol024-009 Volume: BINNS VOL. 24 Author: PITT (William) Year: 1792
PITT (William) 1792 16