Enslavement, Evangelicalism and Bibles
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Book label recording the gift of the Bible in Sranan Tongo to the Library by Queens' Fellow, Thomas Penny White.
Title: Da Njoe Testament va wi Masra en Helpiman Jesus Christus. Translated into the Negro-English language (London, 1829)
Shelfmark: Lee V 17
Provenance: Donated by Thomas Penny White (Queens’ m. 1797).
![See the list of items bound in volume P.497 <a href="https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,P.497&tab=cam_lib_coll&search_scope=SCOP_QUE&vid=44CAM_PROD&lang=en_US&offset=0"> <u>here</u></a>.<br>
See the list of items bound in volume P.472 <a href="https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,P.472&tab=cam_lib_coll&search_scope=SCOP_QUE&vid=44CAM_PROD&lang=en_US&offset=0"> <u>here</u></a>.<br><br>
Isaac Milner's personal collection of around 3,000 pamphlets and books, bequeathed by him to the College, includes many works concerning the politics and ethics of enslavement and abolition. These two pamphlet volumes feature published essays and speeches by William Wilberforce that were given by him to his close friend, Milner.
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Volumes of pamphlets on the slave trade [P.497 & P.472]<br>
<b>Provenance:</b> Bequest of Isaac Milner (Queens’ m. 1770).](https://photos.smugmug.com/Exhibitions/Enslavement-Salvation/Enslavement-Evangelicalism-Bibles/i-22G2qXF/0/cf5bc849/Ti/P-497%281%29-002-Ti.jpg)
