Roscoe for ever!!
Subtitle: lines written extempore for two gentlemen canvassing for the above named, late, worthy, and humane member for Liverpool in order to secure his re-election to serve in the ensuing Parliament
Publisher: Cowdroy, printer, Gazette-Office
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry; Abolitionists; Elections, 1807; Great Britain. Parliament
Other titles: Abolition of the slave trade; Our wise creator made men free, and so 'tis hope we all shall be ...
Description: Broadside canvassing support for William Roscoe for the 1807 Parliamentary election. Roscoe was a vocal abolitionist who had been elected to the House of Commons in 1806 as M.P. for Liverpool. As a member of the 1806 Parliament Roscoe participated in the vote on the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (successfully passed in the House of Commons on 22 February 1807, 283 votes to 16; the law went into effect on May 1st, 1807).
Notes: Purchased in 2019 with the Thomas W. Streeter Fund.