Letter carried by Scipio (with 2 original enclosures), Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 1785.

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An image showing 'MGS/19; Slave-carried letter (with 2 original enclosures), Kingston, Jamaica, 30 Jun 1785.'

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Letter carried by Scipio (with 2 original enclosures), Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 1785.

Letter (with 2 original enclosures), Kingston, Jamaica, 30 Jun 1785. Carried by Scipio (an enslaved man) from the Blue Mountain Estate to Kingston. Enclosures include: (i) a list of the names, state and jobs of the 458 enslaved individuals employed on the Blue Mountain Estate as of 1 January 1785, also with details of the cane crop and the land ( in two parts); and (ii) a report on the overall condition of the Estate from William Sutherland, dated 30 June 1785. The letter is mounted on card with a photocopy of the register showing Scipio's occupation, health details, etc.

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Object Details

ID:	MGS/19
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection
Date made:	1785-01-01 - 1785-06-30; 1785-06-30
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements:	4 items
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 (with 2 original enclosures), Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 1785. (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 (Manuscript) (MGS/49) Bell's Weekly Messenger (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) 'At a meeting of planters, merchants, and others, interested in the Colonies of Trinidad, British Guiana, St Lucia, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Mauritius, held at the West India Dock House, the 1st October, 1831' (Manuscript) (MGS/66) Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/67) Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/68) Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/69) Abolitionist envelope (Manuscript) (MGS/70)