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Catalogue Reference:(PRO) CO 137/222

A printed notice for display throughout Birmingham, which was produced as a result of a public meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society there in 1836. The notice gives the names of Black apprentices and details of the floggings suffered by them in Jamaica, two years after the abolition of slavery.

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