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ID

26

Surname Ivimey

First Name Joseph

Title

The utter extinction of slavery an object of scripture prophecy: A letter, the substance of which was delivered at the annual meeting of the Chelmsford Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association in the Friend's Meeting-House on Tuesday, the 17th of April, 1832

Classification Pamphlet

Place of Publication London

Publisher G. Wightman, et al.

Date 1832

Language English

Translations

Theme Abolition Campaigns

Source

Anti-Slavery International, 'Recovered Histories' collection. Friends House Library, London. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, University of London. British Library.

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Key Words

Anti-Slavery Society Ladies Meeting Scripture Prophecy Extinction Slavery Abolition Chelmsford Britain

Precis

Pamphlet reproducing a speech by the Baptist minister and committee member of the Agency Anti-Slavery Society, Joseph Ivimey, at an anti-slavery meeting in Chelmsford in 1832. He proclaims that the days of slavery were drawing to a close, as prophesised in the Bible, and that the coming Jubilee would set slaves free. Ivimey cites the colonial press and reports to testify to the cruelty of slavery in the West Indies and in Mauritius: "What a brutalizing system is slavery, to transform the noble-minded Briton and the polite and effeminate Frenchman, into tygers and leopards!" (26).

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