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Total number of records: 132

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items112
Archives16
Indexes3
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection36
Quaker Collection24
English Literature8
Cookery Collection2
Joseph Wood Collections2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Letters Database2
Ripon Cathedral2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Coin Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
slavery21
slave trade13
slave-trade9
antislavery movements8
enslaved persons8
african americans7
finance6
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.6
economics5
manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain11
Africa5
Rome5
Africa, East4
Africa, North 4
Africa, West4
Greece3
South Africa3
Africa, Central2
Africa, North2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846)8
Great Britain. Parliament6
Society of Friends. Committee On African Instruction6
Davenant, Charles (1656-1714)5
Whitworth, Charles5
Whitworth, Sir Charles (1721-1778)5
African Institution (London, England)3
Bleek, W H I (1827-1875)3
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)3
Caesar, Sir Julius (1558-1636)3

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Up to 169913
Up to 179929
Up to 189989

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African instruction

Allen, William (1770-1843); Society of Friends. Committee on African Instruction

1822

An appeal for funds for the Committee on African Instruction of the Society of Friends. Subscribed by William Allen and 6 others.

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An African valley

Montgomery, James (1771-1854)

1827

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An African valley

Montgomery, James (1771-1854)

1828

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The African slave trade

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)

1839

Spine title: Buxton on the slave trade.

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The African slave trade

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)

1839

Publisher's advertisements: p. [1]-8, second sequence.

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West African studies

Kingsley, Mary H (1862-1900); Cardi, C N comte de; Harford, John (fl. 1899)

1899

"A short descripition of the natives of the Niger Coast protectorate... by M. le Comte C. N. de Cardi" (pp. 443-566); "A voyage to the African oil rivers twenty-five years ago. By John Harford" (pp. 5...

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West African studies

Kingsley, Mary H (1862-1900); Cardi, C N comte de; Harford, John (fl. 1899)

1899

"A short descripition of the natives of the Niger Coast protectorate... by M. le Comte C. N. de Cardi" (pp. 443-566); "A voyage to the African oil rivers twenty-five years ago. By John Harford" (pp. 5...

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Report on the subject of African instruction

Society of Friends. Committee on African Instruction

1823

By the Committee on African Instruction.

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Report on the subject of African instruction

Society of Friends. Committee on African Instruction

1823

By the Committee on African Instruction.

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The life of Bruce, the African traveller

Head, Sir Francis Bond (1793-1875)

1830

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