Title: To those honest and independent freemen of Liverpool, whose noble spirit on the glorious 7th of May ought to be commemorated in letters of gold.
Year: 1807
Subjects: Roscoe, William,; Great Britain. Elections, 1807.; Elections England Liverpool.
Abstract: Broadside supporting Roscoe as a representative for Liverpool for the 1807 Parliament. Roscoe, an abolitionist, represented Liverpool in the 1806 Parliament, which succesfully voted to abolish the slave trade (the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade went into effect on 1 May 1807). Roscoe was ill-recieved upon his return to Liverpool, in part by those who disagreed with his support in Parliament for the Slave Trade Act (Liverpool being a major port for the trans-Atlantic slave trade) as well as Catholic relief. He and his supporters who accomanied him upon his re-entry to Liverpool on 2 May 1807 were met with violence by  the opposition and one of Roscoe's supporters was killed. Roscoe withdrew from seeking re-election though his supporters nominated him and he went to the poll.