[Album]
Contributors: Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846; Willmore, F. W., former owner
Publisher: Printed on behalf of the Society, by Richard Peart, 38, Bull-Street, Birmingham
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Birmingham, Eng.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Antislavery movements; Enslaved persons; Social conditions; Pictorial works; Slavery; Sugar
Other titles: Album.; Extract from colonel Arthur's letter.; Second report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the relief of British Negro slaves, established, 1825.; Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery.; Ladies' Society, for the Relief of Negro slaves. Card explanatory of the contents of the Society's work bags and albums.; Twenty-six points of comparison between Hebrew slavery, under the Mosaic dispensation, fifteen centuries anterior to the light of Christianity, and British colonial & American slavery, under the Christian dispensation, in the early part of the nineteenth century after Christ.; Case of the vigilante, a ship employed in the slave-trade; with some reflections on that traffic.
Notes: Title supplied by cataloguer from spine title.

"The money raised by the sale of the Society's work-bags, albums, portfolios, &c &c. is employed in circulating information in relieving neglected and deserted Negroes, and in promoting the education of British slaves": introductory page of text.

Albums cobbled together by the Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves conisted of anti-slavery pamphlets, parliamentary reports, excerpts of journals and magazines, individual issues of journals and magazines, and engraved illustrations of anti-slavery imagery. Each album was a bit different in its contents.
Table of contents: title: "But soon as approaching the land, that goddess-like woman he view'd": four line poem with engraving of kneeling slaves, overseer, and female apparition; title: Image of chained slave with excerpt of poem by Cowper; title: An extract from colonel Arthur's letter. Printed on behalf of the Society, by Richard Peart, 38 Bull-Street, Birmingham; title: The second report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the relief of British Negro slaves, established, 1825. Birmingham: Printed by B. Hudson, Bull Street; title: Image of slave with hands raised to heaven in prayer; title: Engraving of female slave and sick child; title: "Negro woman, who sittest pining in captivity and weepest over thy sick child": engraved poem; title: Extracts from the Royal Gazette. Vol. 48, no. 40 (From Saturday, September 30, to Saturday, October 7, 1826. Ellerton and Henderson, printers, Gough Square, London; title: Negro slavery. Argument, that the colonial slaves are better off than the British peasantry, answered, from the Royal Jamaica Gazette / by Thomas Clarkson. Printed by Richard Peart, 38, Bull-Street, Birmingham; title: "Phoebe": engraving, with text, of slave with chained hands raised in prayer on recto and "Slavery in the British West Indies", signed C.T. reprinted from Devizes Gazette, Sept. 10, 1825, on verso; title: Image of slave with child and overseer; title: "And from the pray'r of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear": anonymous anti-slavery poem in two stanzas; title: "Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery": hand-colored map, published by J. Cross, 18 Holborn, also sold by Hatchard & son, Piccadilly, J. & A. Arch, Cornhill, & Neeley and son, Fleet Street, London; title: Ladies' Society, for the Relief of Negro slaves. Card explanatory of the contents of the Society's work bags and albums; title: In the Jamaica Gazette of July 3, 1824 is contained the following advertisement. Dated Kingston workhouse, May 28, 1824, and signed by Henry Broughton; title: Twenty-six points of comparison between Hebrew slavery, under the Mosaic dispensation, fifteen centuries anterior to the light of Christianity, and British colonial & American slavery, under the Christian dispensation, in the early part of the nineteenth century after Christ. J. Taylor, printer, Bristol Mirror-Office, Small-Street [Birmingham]; title: Unidentified text, numbered p. 3-6. J. Taylor, printer, Bristol Mirror-Office, Small-Street [Birmingham]; title: Case of the vigilante, a ship employed in the slave-trade; with some reflections on that traffic. With folded plate showing plan of ship, how slaves are stacked in the ship, and engravings of locks. London: Printed by Harvey Darton, and Co. Gracechurch-Street, 1826; title: Unidentified text, numbered p. 3, [1]. B. Hudson, printer, Birmingham.