Margaret Roberts manuscripts in Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves album, circa 1828-1858.

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Purchased from William Reese Company on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 2020.

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Margaret Roberts (1775-1832), was a companion and literary executor of English author Hannah Moore (1745-1833). Roberts was a sister of Mary Elizabeth Roberts (1769-), a member of the Sheffield Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves, and William Roberts (1767-1849), author of Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More (London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834). William Roberts’s son Arthur Roberts (1801-1886) was the author of The life, letters, and opinions of William Roberts (London: Seeleys, 1850).

Manuscript copies of excerpts from travel literature and antislavery poems, in an unidentified hand, circa 75 pages, bound in an album owned by Margaret Roberts (1775-1832), containing printed materials compiled by the Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves. Manuscript contents include a poem by Charlotte Elizabeth (1790-1846), “Can a woman forget her sucking child”; and excerpts from Maurice Keatinge (-1835), Travels through France and Spain to Morocco (London: H. Colburn, 1817), James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), Notes of the Buckingham lectures: embracing sketches of the geography, antiquities, and present condition of Egypt and Palestine (New York: Leavitt, Lord, & co., 1838), and Walter Henry Medhurst (1796-1857), China: its state and prospects: with especial reference to the spread of the Gospel (London: John Snow, 1838). Also present is a cabinet card portrait of an unidentified man, circa 1880, made by “J. Grossman, Dublin”’ and brief financial accounts in an unidentified hand, 1853-1858 and undated.

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Margaret Roberts manuscripts in Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves album. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Margaret Roberts manuscripts in Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves album. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Abolitionists England 19th century.