Enslavement, Evangelicalism and Bibles
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Title page of Wilberforce’s letter supporting the abolition of the slave trade. Addressed to his constituents, Wilberforce seeks to ‘provide a summary of the principal facts and arguments on which the Abolitionists rest their case’. The ‘Letter’ formed an integral part of Wilberforce’s campaign for the gradual, but determined, abolition of enslavement. The initial stage came to fruition in March 1807 when the Slave Trade Act received royal assent, immediately preventing the ‘carrying of men in British ships to be sold as slaves’.
Author:
William Wilberforce
Title:
A letter on the abolition of the slave trade (London, 1807)
Shelfmark: P.497(2)
Provenance: Bequest of Isaac Milner (Queens’ m. 1770).
![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)
