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Anon.

• Four Cornish Folk Songs Includes:
  • "Camborne Hill"
  • "Lamorna"
  • "Little Eyes"
  • "Trelawney (R.S. Hawker)
• 'Epilogue to "The Padlock"' (1787)

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

• Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, 1791

Blake, William

• 'The Little Black Boy'

Bicknell, John

• The Dying Negro (by John Bicknell and Thomas Day)

Burns, Robert

• 'The Slave's Lament'

Card, Mary Birkett

• Mary Birkett Card, A Poem on the African Slave Trade. Addressed to her own Sex. Part I
• Mary Birkett Card, A Poem on the African Slave Trade. Addressed to her own Sex. Part II

Cowper, William

• Anti-slavery poems by William Cowper Includes:
  • Extracts from Charity
  • Extract from The Task
  • "The Negro's Complaint"
  • "The Morning Dream"
  • "Sweet meat has sour sauce, or, the slave trader in the dumps"

Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah

• Cugoano is Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery from Thoughts and Sentiments
• Cugoano Calls for a Righteous Empire from Thoughts and Sentiments

Day, Thomas

• The Dying Negro (by John Bicknell and Thomas Day)

Equiano, Olaudah

• Equiano describes boarding a slave ship from The Interesting Narrative
• Equiano describes the Middle Passage from The Interesting Narrative
• Equiano visits Cornwall and Guernsey from The Interesting Narrative
• Equiano gains his freedom from The Interesting Narrative
• Equiano describes the attempt to free John Annis from The Interesting Narrative
• Equiano puts the case against the slave trade from The Interesting Narrative

Falconar, Maria and Harriet

• Poems on Slavery

Hardy, Thomas

• Four Cornish poems by Thomas Hardy: Includes:
  • "A Dream or No"
  • "At Castle Boterel"
  • "Beeny Cliff March 1870 - March 1913"
  • "When I Set Out for Lyonnesse"

Harris, John

• "The Fall of Slavery"
• "The Cornish Chough"
• "Falmouth Fire, 1862"
• A Story of Carn Brea - Book One

Hawker, R.S.

• "Trelawney" (Folksong version of "Song of the Western Men"), included with Four Cornish Folk Songs.
• "Song of the Western Men"
• "A Cornish Folk Song"
• "The Cornish Emigrants Song"
• "The Smuggler's Song"

Jekyll, Joseph

• The Life of Ignatius Sancho

More, Hannah

• Slavery, a Poem
• The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman's Lamentation, a poem (Written with Eaglesfield Smith)

Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot)

• A Story

Roscoe, William

• The Wrongs of Africa, Book One
• The Wrongs of Africa, Book Two

Sancho, Ignatius

• Letter from Sancho to John Meheux about art from The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
• Letter from Sancho to John Spink on the Gordon Riots from The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
• Letter from Sancho to Laurence Sterne from The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
• Sancho's views on empire and slavery from The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
• Two letters Sancho wrote to the newspapers in 1778 from The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho

Smith, Eaglesfield

• The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman's Lamentation, a poem (Written with Hannah More)

Sterne, Laurence

• Sterne's correspondence with Ignatius Sancho includes a short extract from Tristram Shandy

Wilberforce, William

• Extracts from reports of Wilberforce's 1789 abolition speech to Parliament

Wolcot, John (Peter Pindar)

• A Story

Wordsworth, William

• Anti-slavery poems by William Wordsworth Includes:
  • "To Thomas Clarkson"
  • "To Toussaint L'Overture"
  • Extract from The Prelude 1805 Text
  • Extract from The Prelude 1850 Text

Yearsley, Ann

• A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade

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