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Vassa to Ottobah Cugoano (John Stewart) 4 April 1787 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 14 June 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, Gloucester Journal, 15 July 1793 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, Northampton Mercury, 18 December 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, St. James’s Chronicle; or, British Evening-Post, 23-25 November 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Aberdeen Journal, 20 August 1792 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Belfast News–Letter, 20 December 1791 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Bury and Norwich Post; Or, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, and Cambridge Advertiser, 5 February 1794 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Caledonian Mercury, 21 May 1792 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Freeman's Journal, 31 May-2 June 1791 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The General Evening Post, 4 December 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The General Evening Post, 20 February 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Glasgow Advertiser and Evening Intelligencer, 27–30 April 1792 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Manchester Mercury, & Harrop’s General Advertiser, 20 July 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Morning Star, 1 May 1789 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Morning Star, 29 April 1789 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The New York Journal and Patriotic Register, 24 September 1791 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Newcastle Chronicle or Weekly Advertiser, and Register of News Commerce, and Entertainment, 15 September 1792 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Norfolk Chronicle, 22 February 1794 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Sheffield Register, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, & Nottinghamshire Universal Advertiser, 20 August 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The World, 5 January 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The World, 18 June 1789 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The World, 20 January 1790 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The World, 24 March 1789 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The York Chronicle, 22 April 1791 |
Advertisement to Lease Plaisterers’ Hall, The Times, 2 January 1798 |
Advertisement to Lease Plaisterers’ Hall, The Times, 22 January 1798 |
Advertisement to Lease Plaisterers’ Hall, The Times, 23 January 1798 |
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 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, The Star, 21 May 1789 |
Marriage Announcement for Vassa and Susannah Cullen, The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury, 13 May 1859 |
Marriage Announcement for Joanna Vassa and Reverend Henry Bromley, Cambridge Chronicle, 7 September 1821 |
Marriage Announcement for Joanna Vassa and Reverend Henry Bromley, Oxford Journal, 15 September 1821 |
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 |
Mention of Gustavus Vassa in an Advertisement for Crosby & Sharpe’s British Theatre in Miniature, Staffordshire Advertiser, 4 October 1806 |
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 |
Poem Written by Vassa, The Morning Post and Gazetteer, 30 January 1798 |
Reference to Gustavus Vasa, The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 3 March 1778 |
Reference to the Belisarius, The London Chronicle, 22 September 1787 |
Reference to the Belisarius, The World, 22 September 1787 |
Reference to the Interesting Narrative, Derby Mercury, 10 February 1791 |
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 |
Reference to Vassa’s Plaque in St. Andrew’s Church, St. Andrew’s Citizen, 21 July 1923 |
Obituary for Joanna Vassa, Ipswich Journal, 21 March 1857 |
Obituary for Vassa, The Gentleman’s Magazine, 6 April 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, The Staffordshire Advertiser, 15 April 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, The Weekly Oracle, 12 August 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, True Briton, 15 April 1797 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, Glasgow Courier, 15 March 1792 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 18 March 1783 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 1 January 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 2 July 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 4 March 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 7 November 1777 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 10 July 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 10 March 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 11 June 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 18 August 1777 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 23 June 1778 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 24 July 1777 |
Possible Attribution to Vassa, The Public Advertiser, 13 February 1788 |
Advertisement for the Interesting Narrative, Yarrington & Bacon’s Norwich Mercury, 22 February 1794 |
Marriage Announcement for Vassa and Susannah Cullen, Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1792 |
Obituary for Vassa, European Magazine, 31 April 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, Providence Gazette and Country Journal, 12 August 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, The Massachusetts Spy: or, the Worcester Gazette, 9 August 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, The Morning Herald, 4 April 1797 |
Obituary for Vassa, The Morning Post and Fashionable World, 14 April 1797 |
Marriage Announcement for Vassa and Susannah Cullen, Edinburgh Historical Register or Monthly Influencer 1792 |
Mention of Vassa’s Review of Apology for Negro Slavery by Gordon Turnbull, The Morning Post, 4 February 1788 |
Review of the Interesting Narrative, Göttingische Anzeigen von Gelehrten Sachen, 26 April 1790 |
Review of the Interesting Narrative, Monthly Review, June 1789 |
Review of the Interesting Narrative, The Analytical Review, May 1789 |
Review of the Interesting Narrative, The General Magazine and Impartial Review, July 1789 |
Review of the Interesting Narrative, The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1789 |
Review of the Interesting Narrative, The National Enquirer, 20 July 1837 |
Vassa's Review of Turnbull’s Apology for Negro Slavery, The Public Advertiser, 5 February 1788 |
Vassa’s Review of Cursory Remarks & Rejoinder by James Tobins, The Public Advertiser, 28 January 1788 |
Vassa’s Review of Humanity, or the Rights of Nature, a Poem: in Two Books by Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 27 June 1788 |
Vassa’s Review of Scripture Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade by Rev. Mr. Raymond Harris, The Public Advertiser, 28 April 1788 |
Marriage Announcement for Vassa and Susannah Cullen, Literary and Biographical Magazine and British Review, May 1792 |
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 |
Vassa and Seven Others to Quakers 5 May 1786 |
Rev. Patrick Fraser to the London Chronicle and the Morning Chronicle 2–3 July 1787 |
Vassa to Rev. Patrick Fraser 14 July 1787 |
Vassa to Lord Hawkesbury 31 March 1788 |
Vassa to the British Senate 19 June 1788 |
Vassa to the British Senate 20 June 1788 |
Vassa to Lord Sydney 28 June 1788 |
Vassa to the Author of Sable Soup and Black Bouille 5 July 1788 |
Sons of Africa to Sir William Dolben 15 July 1788 |
Sons of Africa to William Pitt 15 July 1788 |
Sons of Africa to Charles James Fox 15 July 1788 |
Vassa to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 14 February 1789 |
Sons of Africa to William Dickson 25 April 1789 |
Vassa to the Printer of the Cambridge Chronicle 1 August 1789 |
Vassa to the Printer of Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 28 June 1790 |
Vassa to the Printer of the Manchester Mercury, & Harrop’s General Advertiser, 31 August 1790 |
Vassa to the Printer of the Sheffield Register, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, & Nottinghamshire Universal Advertiser, 2 September 1790 |
Vassa to the Printer of the Leeds Mercury 19 April 1791 |
Vassa to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Caledonian Mercury, 26 May 1792 |
Vassa to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Edinburgh Evening Courant, Saturday, 26 May 1792 |
Vassa to Inhabitants of Newcastle 6 October 1792 |
Vassa to Inhabitants of Norfolk, Norfolk Chronicle, 15 March 1794 |
Vassa’s Review of Scripture Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade by Rev. Mr. Raymond Harris, Newcastle Courant, 18 September 1824 |
Defense of Vassa’s Behaviour as Commissary for the Sierra Leone Expedition, The Public Advertiser, 6 April 1787 |
“Christian” to “Civis,” Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser, 11 July 1788 |
Irving Death notification Scots Magazine June 1794 |
Vassa to Inhabitants of Norfolk, Norwich Mercury, 15 March 1794 |
Obituary for Susannah Vassa, Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 20 February 1796 |
Aris's Birmingham Gazette 28 June 1790 |
Joseph Irwin to Editor of Morning Herald 7 January 1787 |
Advertisement for Interesting Narrative The Times 1 December 1790New Entry |
Advertisement for the German version of The Interesting Narrative..., Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitungen, 19 May 1790 |
Vassa in the article “Berühmte Neger - Nach dem Franzüsischen," Augsburger Postzeitung, 12 November 1841 |
Advertisement for a Dutch version to The Interesting Narratives… by Pieter Holsteyn, Oprechte Sturdagse Haarlamse Courant, 20 November 1790. |
Advertisement for a Dutch version of The Interesting Narrative... by Jacob Pieter van Braam, Oprechte Donderdagse Haarlemse Courant, 6 May 1790. |
Advertisement for a Dutch version on The Interesting Narratives... by Jacob Pieter van Braam, Rotterdamsche Courant, 6 May 1790. |
Advertisement for a Dutch version of The Interesting Narratives… by Pieter Holsteyn, Utrechtsche Courant, 14 January 1791. |
Advertisement for a Dutch version of The Interesting Narratives… by Pieter Holsteyn, Utrechtsche Courant, 24 November 1790. |
Advertisement and a short review for a Dutch version of The Interesting Narratives..., Utrechtsche Courant, 29 July 1814. |