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Slave passport
Slave passport, Surinam, for five named enslaved individuals to travel to Rio Demerary. Appears to be written in Dutch. With wax seal.
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Object Details
ID:
MGS/18
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Creator:
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection
Date made:
1774-10-01 - 1774-10-31; 1774-10
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements:
1 item
Parts:
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection (Manuscript)
Registration document (Manuscript) (MGS/1)
Registration certificate (Manuscript) (MGS/2)
Registration Certificate (Manuscript) (MGS/3)
Registration document (Manuscript) (MGS/4)
Bills of sale (Manuscript) (MGS/5)
Certificate of sale (Manuscript) (MGS/6)
Bill of sale (Manuscript) (MGS/7)
Receipt (Manuscript) (MGS/8)
Receipt (Manuscript) (MGS/9)
Receipt (Manuscript) (MGS/10)
Receipts (Manuscript) (MGS/11)
Receipt (Manuscript) (MGS/12)
Confederate bond (Manuscript) (MGS/13)
Shipping bill (Manuscript) (MGS/14)
Shipping bill (Manuscript) (MGS/15)
Bill of lading (Manuscript) (MGS/16)
Bill of lading (Manuscript) (MGS/17)
Slave passport (Manuscript) (MGS/18)
Letter carried by Scipio (an enslaved man), Kingston, Jamaica, with associated papers (Manuscript) (MGS/19)
Letter to William Atkinson of Sheffield from Thomas Oates, addressed from Augusta, Georgia, 23 March 1821. (Manuscript) (MGS/20)
Affidavit (Manuscript) (MGS/21)
Letter (Manuscript) (MGS/22)
Plantation inventory (Manuscript) (MGS/23)
Plantation inventory (Manuscript) (MGS/24)
Plantation inventory (Manuscript) (MGS/25)
Monthly inventory report (Manuscript) (MGS/26)
Monthly plantation inventory (Manuscript) (MGS/27)
Monthly plantation inventory (Manuscript) (MGS/28)
Plantation inventory (Manuscript) (MGS/29)
Valuation of enslaved estate workers (Manuscript) (MGS/30)
Valuation of enslaved workforce (Manuscript) (MGS/31)
Indenture (Manuscript) (MGS/32)
Indenture (Manuscript) (MGS/33)
Indenture (Manuscript) (MGS/34)
Appointment document (Manuscript) (MGS/35)
Court document (Manuscript) (MGS/36)
Compensation claim (Manuscript) (MGS/37)
Anti-Slavery Society cheque (Manuscript) (MGS/38)
Autographed quotations (Manuscript) (MGS/39)
Manuscript (MGS/40)
Sketch of the West-Coast of Africa (Map) (MGS/42)
The Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser (Manuscript) (MGS/43)
The Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser (Manuscript) (MGS/44)
The Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser (Manuscript) (MGS/45)
The Cornwall Chronicle and Jamaica General Advertiser (Manuscript) (MGS/46)
Kentish Gazette (Manuscript) (MGS/47)
Kentish Gazette (Manuscript) (MGS/48)
Bell's Weekly Messenger Newspaper (Manuscript) (MGS/49)
Bell's Weekly Messenger Newspaper (Manuscript) (MGS/50)
Barbados Mercury and Bridge-Town Gazette (Newspaper) (MGS/51)
The Tourist or Sketch Books of the Times (Manuscript) (MGS/52)
The Wisbech Monthly Record (Manuscript) (MGS/53)
The Edinburgh Evening Courant (Manuscript) (MGS/54)
The Royal Gazette (Manuscript) (MGS/55)
Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection (Manuscript) (MGS/56)
'The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, In the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday, April 18 and 19, 1791, reported in detail' (Manuscript) (MGS/57)
'Picture of Slavery in the United States of America' (Manuscript) (MGS/58)
'The Patriarchal Institution, as Described by Members of Its Own Family' (Manuscript) (MGS/59)
'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 other, before the House of Lords, respecting the slave trade' (Manuscript) (MGS/60)
'The speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, on a motion for the abolition of the slave trade, in the House of Commons, Monday the Second of April, 1792' (Manuscript) (MGS/61)
'The capture of a slaver' (Manuscript) (MGS/62)
'Medals, tokens etc, issued in connection with William Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery' (Manuscript) (MGS/63)
Manuscript (MGS/64)
'Negro' slavery - No.V Conduct and treatment of missionaries in the West Indies' (Manuscript) (MGS/65)
Printed minutes and conclusion of a pro-slavery meeting held at the West India Dock House, 1st Oct 1831 (Manuscript) (MGS/66)
Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/67)
Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/68)
Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/69)
Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/70)
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