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Letters/Documents written about Vassa
Mention of Vassa in Advertisement for A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead, The North Star, 28 October 1848
Mention of Gustavus Vassa in an Advertisement for The Memoires of Theobald M’Kenna by Molyneux, Saunders’s News-Letter, 2 January 1799
Accusation against Vassa, The Oracle, 25 April 1792
Accusation against Vassa, The Star, 27 April 1792
Announcement of Vassa’s Position as Commissary for the Sierra Leone Expedition, The Morning Herald, 29 December 1786
Biographical Sketch of Vassa, The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 1 July 1788
Excerpt from the Interesting Narrative, The Morning Star, 5 June 1789
Mention of Vassa in a Poem, Lancaster Gazette, 14 November 1807
Alexander Tillock to John Montieth, Esq. 5 May 1792
Notice for City Debate on the Slave Trade Involving Vassa, The Gazeteer and New Daily Advertiser, 9 May 1789
Notice of Vassa’s Activities in Edinburgh, The Star, Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 30 May 1792
Reference to the Interesting Narrative, Glasgow Herald, 31 January 1853
Reference to the Interesting Narrative, Leeds Intelligencer, 19 February 1853
Reference to Vassa as a Subscriber to Defray Expenses of Defendants in Trials for High Treason in Britain, The Morning Post and Fashionable World, 19 May 1795
Reference to Vassa at a Meeting of the Friends of Freedom, The Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner, 4 December 1797
Reference to Vassa at a Meeting of the Friends of Freedom, The Telegraph, 7 November 1796
Reference to Vassa, Oracle Bell’s New World, 12 August 1789
Reference to Vassa, The Bee, Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, 1792
Granville Sharp to Jemima Sharp 27 February 1811
Granville Sharp to Dr. J. Sharp 23 June 1787
Criticism of Vassa’s Behaviour as Commissary for the Sierra Leone Expedition, The Public Advertiser, 11 April 1787
Criticism of Vassa’s Behaviour as Commissary for the Sierra Leone Expedition, The Public Advertiser, 14 April 1787
Joseph Gale to the Editor of the Sheffield Register, 27 August 1790
Excerpt from Granville Sharp’s Journal regarding Vassa 19 March 1783
Excerpt of Diary of Katherine Plymley 20 June 1793
Navy Office to Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 27 February 1787
"The Shipwreck of a Slave Ship," Poem by John Lowe, 1 January 1803
Thomas Boulden Thompson to Navy Board 21 March 1787
City of Westminster Plaque 11 October 2000
Inscription by Edward Papenfuse in the Interesting Narrative, 4th ed., 7 April 1792
Rev. Patrick Fraser to the London Chronicle and the Morning Chronicle 2–3 July 1787
Jemima Sharp to Granville Sharp 20 February 1811
Charles Crawford to Friends of Humanity, Observations upon Negro Slavery, 1790
Defense of Vassa’s Behaviour as Commissary for the Sierra Leone Expedition, The Public Advertiser, 6 April 1787
Reference to Vassa in William Gifford’s The Baviad a Paraphrastic Imitation of the First Satire of Persius, 1791
Thomas Hardy to Rev. Mr. Thomas Bryant 8 March 1792
“Christian” to “Civis,” Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser, 11 July 1788