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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2025

Nicolas Bell-Romero
Nicolas Bell-Romero
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Tulane University, Louisiana

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The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery , pp. 371 - 391
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Print publication year: 2025
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Index

Abdy, Edward Strutt
education and background of, 166
opinions on race, 170–171
reception of the Journal, 169–170
support for abolition organisations, 171
travels in the United States, 168–170
Abdy, Sir William, 166
Academia della Crusca, 111
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, 180
Adeane, John, 148
Adventurers for Irish Land, 53
African Company of Merchants, 49–50, 133, 235
African Institution, 119, 131, 141, 155, 157
Afzelius, Adam, 131
Alabama, 14, 185, 197
All Souls College, Oxford, 90, 95–97, 132
Allen, Andrew, 19
Allen, James, 19
Alpress, George, 40
Alpress, Samuel, 23, 40–42
Alston, Charles, 64
al-Timbukti, Ahmad Baba, 11
al-Wazzan, al-Hasan Muhammad, 56
American Anti-Slavery Society, 170–172
American Civil War
British support for the Confederacy, 185–189, 193–200
British support for the Union, 194, 286–
causes of, 14
Confederate lobbying efforts, 197–198
Confederate religious revival, 165
consequences for the University of the South, 165
impact on the British economy, 190
Juneteenth, 203
Secession, 185
surrender of the Confederacy, 18
Trent Affair, 186
American Colonisation Society, 183
American Revolution
Battle of Waxhaws, 43
Black loyalists in, 130
British defense of their Caribbean colonies during, 104
consequences for American merchants, 98
Declaration of Independence, 19, 59
effect on colonial colleges, 42
effect on enslavement, 13
impact on abolition movement, 107, 151, 203
imperial crisis, 126
Liverpool and American Prisoners of War, 115
rise of proslavery movement during, 119
Treaty of Paris, 4
Anderson, John, 159
Andrews, John, 64
Angola, 56, 95, 114, 117, 132
Anthropological Society of London, 198–199
Antigua
Abdy plantations in, 166
Cambridge fellowship connections to, 45
Coleridge’s travels in, 157
Elizabeth Pinckney’s birth in, 88
missionary activity in, 153
Samuel Martin’s plantation, 22
student connections to plantations in, 20, 28, 38, 111
Appland, Lindsay Middleton, 292
Apthorp, Charles, 74
Apthorp, East, 74–75
Aquinas, Thomas, 5
Arbuthnot, John, 81
Archer, Gabriel, 51
Aristotle, 5–6, 23, 259
Associates of Dr Bray, 68–69, 86
Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, 131–136
Australian-Pacific indentured labour trade, 191–192
Ayerst, William, 68
Babington, Charles Cardale, 199
Backhouse, James, 27
Bacon, Anthony, 128
Bahamas, 27, 47, 61
Baker, Sir Samuel, 184
Baker, William, 256
Balliol College, Oxford, 91
Bamana Empire, 136
Banister, John, 81
Bank of England, 64–65, 127, 130, 194–195
Bankers
Banking in Cambridge, 141
Byam’s abolition scheme at Goslings and Sharpe Bank, 155
fellowship connections to, 27, 115
Harford banking family, 20
impact of Russian Emancipation on, 191
involvement in South Sea Company, 95
links to the abolition movement, 118
student connections to, 21, 47
support for British rule in India, 195
support for the Confederacy, 194, 196
Bankes, William John, 197
Banks, Sir Joseph, 131, 135
the Baptist War, 172
Barbados
Chapman’s poem, 161
Charles Pinfold’s governorship of, 64
coffee production in, 85
Coleridge’s travels in, 156–157
English colonisation of, 7
fellowship connections to plantations in, 27, 32, 44–45
Fellowship connections to slave trading in, 27
Friedrich de August’s escape from, 45
Hughes’s Natural History, 132
Irish indentured servitude in, 52
John Martyn’s specimens from, 86
legal cases about, 126
Maskelyne’s journey to, 89–90
missionary activity in, 23, 95, 152, 154
plantation tutors in, 47
proposed college in, 70
proslavery lobby in, 161–162
Ricketts family in, 127
Robert Lowther’s governorship in, 93–94
scientific collecting in, 81
ships impounded in, 98
slave code, 60
student connections to plantations in, 20, 28, 32, 44, 46, 76, 161
support for coffee plantations in, 85
Townes’s scientific experiments, 76–77
Barbary slave trade, 58, 72, 160
Barbor, William, 66
Barker, Hannah, 40
Barnes, Rev. Francis, 113
Barrett, Edward, 172–173
Barwick, Peter, 79
Baylor, John III, 31
Baylor, John IV, 24, 31, 37
Beaumont, Joseph, 191
Beaver, Philip, 131
Bedell, William, 53
Bendish, Sir Thomas, 53
Bendyshe, Thomas, 199
Benezet, Anthony, 50, 109, 236
Benjamin, Judah P., 198, 200–201, 292
Bentinck, Henry, 1st Duke of Portland, 68
Bentley, Richard, 25, 31, 82
Beresford-Hope, Alexander, 165, 196–197
Berkeley, Anne Forster, 69
Berkeley, George, 69, 75
Bermuda
Captain Roger Wood’s governorship of, 63
Charles Elliot’s governorship of, 178
Earl of Pembroke’s designs on, 59
proposed college in, 25, 69, 75
religious dissidents banished from, 61
Somers Island Company rule in, 55
St Paul’s College in, 177–179
student connections to plantations in, 20
Bernal, Ralph, 158–159
Berney, John, 32, 44
Berney, Sir Hanson, 44
Berney, Sir John, 44
Berney, Sir Thomas, 44
Beverley, Robert, 23
Bickell, Rev. Richard, 158–159
Biden, Joseph R., 203
Bigland, Edward, 39
Bigland, Elizabeth, 39
Birmingham, 143
Blackstone, William, 91, 101
Blake, Sir Patrick, 128
Blakesley, George Holmes, 191
Bland, Henry, 68
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 134, 199
Blythe, Samuel, 64
Bogle, Paul, 190
Bologna, University of, 5
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 14, 129, 138, 230
Bonney, Thomas George, 199
Borthwick, Peter, 158
Bosworth, Rev. James, 199
Botany Bay, 114, 121
Bourryau, John, 278
Boyle, Sir Robert, 152
Boynton, Sir Griffith, 113
Bradley, Richard, 83, 85–86
Brazil, 15, 114, 163, 176, 193
Bridges, George Wilson, 142
Bridgetower, Friedrich Augustus, 45
Bridgetower, George Polgreen, 45
Bridgetower, Mary Ann, 45
Briggs, Henry, 56
Bristol
abolition movement in, 114
banking in, 194
medicinal practices in, 124
merchant support for Kimber, 127
merchants in, 47, 85
slave traders from, 126
Thomas Tenison’s schooling in, 27
British and Foreign Bible Society, 152
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 147
British Guiana, 13, 46–47, 178, 182, 191
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 148
Browne, Rev. William, 46
Browning, Oscar, 289
Brydges, James, 1st Duke of Chandos, 95
Buchanan, Francis, 145
Budd, George, 164
Buddicom, Robert Pedder, 27
Bulama Association, 131
Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig, 135
Burdon, William, 129
Burke, Edmund, 145
Burnaby, Andrew, 115
Burrell, Peter, 99
Burrough, Sir James, 34
Burwell, Lewis, 34
Burwell, Nathaniel, 21
Butler, Joseph, 117
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, 141
Byam, Richard Burgh, 32, 153–155
Byrd, William II, 25, 82
Cabot, Samuel, Jr., 169
Calabar, 127, 133, 135
Calamet, Augustin, 72
Calhoun, John C., 182, 194
Calthrop, Samuel R., 286
Calvin, John, 59
Cambridge Apostles, 193
Cambridge Bible Association, 177, 184
Cambridge Chronicle, 111, 116, 143, 162
Cambridge Elections, 148, 150, 162
Cambridge Independent Press, 162
Cambridge Intelligencer, 117–118
Cambridge School of Art, 190
Cambridge Society for Constitutional Information, 118
Cambridge Union Society, 142–144, 186, 194, 199
Cambridge University Library, 40, 60, 78, 97, 123, 266
Cambridge University Press, 168
Campbell, Elizabeth, 40
Cannibal Club, 199
Canterbury Association, 195
Cape Coast Castle, 10, 49, 81
Carlyle, Thomas, 190
Carter, George, 22, 26
Carter, John, 26, 38
Carter, Landon, 22, 42
Carter, Robert, 22, 34–35
Carteret, John, 2nd Earl Granville, 102
Cartwright, Rev. Thomas, 49
Cartwright, Samuel A., 292
Cary, Robert, 26
Cecil, Sir William, 53
Chafy, William, 138
Chamberlyn, Elizabeth, 68
Chandler, Richard, 225
Channing, William, 170
Chapman, M. J., 161
Chapman, Thomas, 13, 67
Charles I, 59
Charles II, 38, 62, 79
Charles, Thomas, 152
Charterhouse School, 29, 36
Chetwode, John, 64
Chiesly, Sir Robert, 67
Christ Church, Oxford, 123, 162
Christian Faith Society, 177
Christian, Edward, 101
Christian, Rear-Admiral Hugh Cloberry, 181
Christophe, Henri, 144
Christ’s College, Cambridge
alumni involvement in the proslavery movement, 158
Beilby Porteus’s benefaction, 275
donors to the abolition movement, 111
Henry Finch’s donation to, 69
John Covel’s donation to, 78
members’ donations to the Sierra Leone Company, 130
Owen Stockton’s education at, 66
Paley’s fellowship at, 117
students with connections to plantations, 33, 40, 76
students with connections to the transatlantic economy, 37
Thomas Thompson, 49, 51
Church Missionary Society, 175
Church of England, 23, 49, 61, 128, 157, 165
Church of Scotland, 170
Church Pastoral Aid Society, 175
Churchill, Lady Mary, Duchess of Montagu, 231
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 6, 23
Clapham Sect, 118–119
Clare College, Cambridge
alumni support for the proslavery movement, 128
fellowship involvement in the SPG, 73
fellowship involvement in the Virginia Company, 52
Samuel Blythe’s benefaction, 64–65
support for the abolition movement, 115–116
Clark, Rev. William, 180
Clarke, Edward Daniel, 135
Clarke, Rev. Adam, 272
Clarke, Rev. Thomas, 116
Clarke, Samuel, 117
Clarkson, Thomas
abolitionist thought of, 109, 123, 140, 182
Cambridge essay on enslavement, 109
campaign chest of, 113
involvement in Sierra Leone, 268
proslavery attacks on, 128
recognition of, 143
Clathrop, Samuel Robert, 186
Clayton, Charles, 175–177
Clive, Robert, 1st Baron Clive, 89
Cockburn, Alexander, 181
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, 181
Cockerell Building, 181–182
Codrington, Christopher, 67, 95
Codrington College, 67, 70, 125, 152, 154–155
Coffee, 32, 83, 85–86, 114, 136, 184
Coke, Sir Edward, 10, 122
Colebatch, John, 25
Coleridge, Hartley, 158
Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 155–158
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 113–114, 140–141, 158
Coleridge, William Hart, 155
College of William and Mary, 22, 25, 70, 82, 136, 152, 169
Colleton, Sir Peter, 61
Collins, John, 80
Collymore, Amaryllis, 46
Collymore, Robert, 46
Collymore, Robert, Jr., 46
Colton, John, 53
Comings, Thomas Gray, 132
Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 112
Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, 130
Company of Adventurers to the Bahama Islands, 61
Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 66
Cook, Capt. James, 78, 131
Coolidge, Ellen Randolph, 169
Corn Laws, 163
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
alumni support for the proslavery movement, 128
donations to the SPG, 67
donors to the abolition movement, 111–112
fellows and the abolition movement, 160
fellowship donations to the SPCK, 67
fellowship involvement in the University of the South, 165
fellowship involvement in the SPCK, 68
fellowship support for the SPG, 69
library accounts of, 143, 225
Matthias Mawson as Master, 68–69
student ownership of South Sea Company securities, 31
sugar and property leasing, 160
Thomas Tenison’s benefaction to, 70
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 124
Cosins, John, 58
Cotton
British support for plantations trading in, 194
British support for traders in, 196
impact of scarcity on British economy, 190
missionary attacks on the trade in, 185
missionary support for plantations in Africa, 184
New York trade in, 172
plantations, 170
sale and distribution of, 115
slave trafficking to cotton states, 176
Cotton, John, 59–60
Cottrell, Sally, 169
Coulthurst, William, 112
Coulthurst, William Henry, 104–105
Courten, Sir William, 7
Covel, John, 78
Cowell, John Jermyn, 193
Cowell, John Welsford, 194–196
Cowie, Samuel Burnie, 127
Craft, Ellen, 173
Craft, William, 173
Craister, John, 63
Crashaw, William, 51–52
Craufurd, James, 147
Craufurd, Rev. George W., 146–147, 150, 182
Craufurd, Sir Alexander, 147
Craufurd, Thomas, 147
Crawford, Alexander, 38
Crawford, Charles, 38
Cromwell, Oliver, 52
Crosse, Thomas, 82
Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, 181
Cruikshank, Isaac, 127
Crummell, Alexander
abolitionist thought, 182–183
commentary on Black civil rights, 184
education and background of, 171–172, 180
friendship with Charles Clayton, 175
racism experienced in Cambridge, 179, 181
reasons for attending Cambridge, 172
speech at the Cambridge Town Hall, 176–177
support for Liberia, 176, 183
Crummell, Boston, 171
Crummell, Sarah, 179
Cuba, 163
Cust, Brownlow, 128
Dahomey, 129
d’Alonne, Abel Tassin, 68
Dalrymple, Sir David, 225
d’Anghiera, Peter Martyr, 54
D’Arcy, Robert, 37
Darwin, Charles, 274
Davenant, Charles, 91–92
Davenant, William, 30
Davers, Sir Charles, 128
Davies, Emily, 193
Davis, Jefferson, 165, 200
de Gobineau, Joseph Arthur, 197
de Jussieu, Antoine Laurent, 86
de La Condamine, Charles-Marie, 78
de Secondat, Charles Louis, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, 104
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 168
Decker, Sir Matthew, 69
Demerara, 27, 43, 46, 104
Denmark, 196, 203
Denne, John, 68
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 144
Devaynes, William, 49
d’Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, 93
Dickinson, Francis, 48
Dickinson, William, 48
Doctors’ Commons, 90–92, 96, 101
Dod, Peirce, 96
Dolben Act of 1788, 10
Dominica, 47, 86
Donne, John, 57
Douglas, Philip, 138
Douglass, Frederick, 173–174, 182
Dowding, William Charles, 177–179
Downing, Emmanuel, 55
Downman, John, 37, 230
Draining of the Fens, 6
Draper, Lieut. Gen. Sir William, 107
Du Bois, W. E. B., 183
Dublin (enslaved rebel), 46
Dulany, Daniel, 37
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, 152
Dundas, Lawrence, 1st Earl of Zetland, 47, 181
Dunlop, James, 193
Dunlop, Nancy, 193
Dutch West India Company, 9
Dyer, George, 121
East India Company
abolitionist support for sugar production under, 147
college investments in, 63–64, 243
enslavement and coerced labour under, 145–146
indentureship, 15
individual investments in, 59, 64–65, 86, 89, 94, 97, 257
loans to, 195
missionary activity for, 63, 65, 70, 78, 113
political support for, 64, 91
Robert Clive’s governorship, 89
Royal Society’s investment in, 76
scientific research for, 89
Sir Matthew Decker’s directorship, 69
slave-trading, 9
Eddis, William, 115
Eden, Charles, 69
Eden, Richard, 54
Edinburgh, University of, 67, 191
Edward, James Francis, 62
Edward VI, 53
Edwards, Bryan, 123, 135–136
Eliot, Rev. John, 55
Elizabeth I, 53–54
Elliot, Charles, 178
Elliott, Richard, 63
Ellys, Anthony, 73, 152
Elyott, Adam, 72
Emancipation of the Serfs, 191
Emancipation Proclamation, 200, 203, 286
Emery, William, 165
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
alumni connections to Ireland, 53
attitude to protests, 121
donations from enslavers, 32
fellows and the Haitian Revolution, 129
former fellows and racial thought, 71–72
fire, 229
involvement in the abolition of the slave trade, 111
members’ support for American colonisation, 51, 59–60
members’ support for the SPCK, 67
students and enslavement, 28
Equafo, 9
Equiano, Olaudah, 13, 45, 110, 112, 132
Erasmus, 6, 68
Ethnological Society of London, 198
Eton College
Henry Nelson Coleridge’s education at, 155
Jefferson Davis’s visit to, 201
John George Witt’s attendance at, 199
Richard Elliott’s attendance at, 63
students with connections to the plantation economy, 28, 36–37, 147, 230
alumni support for Charles Kingsley, 189
Thomas Smith’s tenure as provost, 53
Eustis, George, Jr., 200
Everett, Edward, 193
Everett, William, 193–194
Eyre, Edward John, 190–191
Farish, Charles, 104–106, 114–115
Farish, Rev. William, 130, 141, 143–144, 177
Farmer, Richard, 121
Fattatenda, Gambia, 133
Fellowes, Sir James, 181
Ferrar, Nicholas, 52, 55–56, 59
Ferrar, Virginia, 52
Fiji, 192
Fillmore, Millard, 259
Finch, Daniel, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 69
Finch, Henry, 69
Fisk Jubilee Singers, 174
Fisk University, 174
Fleetwood, William, 71
Florida, 73, 185, 193
Flower, Benjamin, 117
Folkes, Elizabeth, 44
Follen, Charles, 169
Fonnereau, Claude, 86
Foot, Jesse, 90
Forby, Robert, 44
Forten, James, 171
Foster, Richard, 172
Fothergill, John, 131
Fox, Charles James, 37, 141
Fox, William, 145
Francklin, Thomas, 74
Franklin, Benjamin, 78, 236
Franklyn, Gilbert, 128
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 99, 104, 259
Free Soil Party, 187
Freedom’s Journal, 172
Freind, John, 81
French Revolution, 112, 116, 120–121
Frend, Rev. William, 130
Frend, William, 112, 121
Fugitive Slave Act, 189
Fuller, Henry, 28
Fuller, John ‘Mad Jack’, 227
Fuller, John, Jr., 28, 31–32
Fuller, John, Sr., 29, 224
Fuller, Rose, 28, 30, 32, 41, 86
Fuller, Stephen
dealings with Samuel Alpress, 40–42
education at Cambridge, 28
fellowship at Trinity College, 29
guidance of students, 23–24, 29, 31
involvement in the proslavery lobby, 119–123, 128–129
last will and testament, 48
membership of the Royal Society, 227
Fuller, Thomas, 29, 40
Fuller Rose, 31
Gale, Thomas, 69
Galen, 76
Galusha, Rev. Elon, 172
Gamble, Jane Catherine, 193
Garrison, William Lloyd, 171, 176
Gedge, Joseph, 184
General Theological Seminary, 172
George I, 38, 68, 82, 92, 104
George II, 37, 72, 99, 102, 104
George III, 45, 104–105, 114, 151
George IV, 125
Georgia, 68–69, 73–74, 86, 165, 173, 185
Gibbon, Edward, 7
Gibson, Thomas, 97
Giffard, Hardinge, 1st Earl of Halsbury, 201
Girton College, Cambridge, 193
Gisborne, Thomas, 132
Gladstone, William, 103
Glasgow, University of, 7, 100
Glorious Revolution of 1688, 62
Glover, Thomas, 77
Godfrey, Rev. Henry, 141
Godolphin, Henry, 36
Godwyn, Morgan, 23
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
alumni in Africa, 184
alumni in the early Virginia colony, 56
alumni support for missionary work, 154
alumni support for the proslavery movement, 128
alumni who were enslaved, 72
Clayton’s fellowship at, 175
Cockerell building, 181
college donations to the SPCK, 67
college donations to the SPG, 67
Crummell dining at, 179
donations to other charitable causes, 112
donations to the abolition movement, 111
enslaved man named Caius, 26
Fellows and Saint-Domingue, 181
Fellows’ involvement in phrenology, 164
Fellows’ involvement in the SPCK, 67
Fellows with connections to the plantation economy, 32, 44
Gooch’s mastership, 25–26
members’ involvement in the colonisation of Ireland, 53
Salomons benefaction, 195
Stockton’s benefaction, 66
students and the ASL, 199
students with connections to the plantation economy, 31, 34, 37, 44–45
Tobacco case, 58
Wortley’s benefaction, 66
Gooch, Sir Thomas, 25–26, 35–36, 44, 66, 70
Gooch, William, 25–26, 35
Goslings and Sharpe Bank, 155
Gottingen, University of, 134
Goulburn, Henry, 37, 181, 197, 230
Gower, Dr Humphrey, 245
Grainger, James, 161
Grant, Alexander, 46
Grant, John, 128
Grant, Sir Alexander Cray, 162–163
Grant, Ulysses S., 18
Gray, Robert, 51
Green, John, 67
Green, William Mercer, 164
Greene, Henry, 130
Gregory, David, 67
Gregory, James, 66
Grenada, 47, 106, 127
Grenville, George Neville, 27, 181
Gresham College, 61
Gresham, Thomas, 160
Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke, 57
Grey, Samuel Brownlow, 178–179
Grigg, William, 65
Grimké, John Faucheraud, 40
Grinstead, Elizabeth Kay, 100
Grotius, Hugo, 99
Grymes, John I, 26
Grymes, John II, 26
Grymes, John Randolph, 37
Guadeloupe, 95, 138, 139
Guinea Company, 58–59
Gunpowder Plot, 62
Hackwood, William, 110
Hague, Charles, 45
Hakewill, James, 155
Hall, Thomas Kirkpatrick, 27
Hallifax, Samuel, 125–126
Hamilton, Alexander, 99
Hamilton, John James, 28
Hammond, Arthur Atherley, 130
Hancorn, Richard, 131
Hanson, Samuel, 44
Hare, Sir Ralph, 58
Harley, Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, 9
Harper & Brothers, 170
Harrison, Caskie, 166
Harrison, John, 78
Harrow School, 28, 36, 192
Harvard University, 66, 75, 169, 193–194
Harvest, George, 73–74
Harvey, William Woodis, 142, 144
Harwood, Sir Busick, 121, 132
Harwood, Thomas, 113
Hawes, William, 41
Hay, James, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, 59
Hayes, Charles, 81, 250
Heeren, Arnold Hermann Ludwig, 134
Hemings, Sarah ‘Sally’, 100
Henchman, Humphrey, 91
Henry III, 5
Henry VIII, 6–7, 53
Henslow, John Stevens, 141
Herbert, William, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, 59
Heslop, John, 68
Heslop, Robert, 109
Heyne, Christian Gottlob, 134
Heyrick, Elizabeth, 140
Heywood & Co., 192
Hibbert, George, 136
Hicks, Charity, 171
Hinchcliffe, John, 108–109
Hinchliffe, Henry, 115
Hindmarsh, George, 127
Hoadly, Benjamin, 67
Hodgson, Francis, 116
Holt, Arthur, 33
Hooker, Thomas, 60
Hopkins, J. B., 200
Hopkinson, John, 46
Hopkinson, Thomas, 46
Hornemann, Friedrich Conrad, 134
Hornsby, Thomas, 28
Horse racing, 31
Hothersall, Burch, 32
Hotze, Henry, 17, 197–200
Houghton, Daniel, 133
Houstoun, William, 86
Howard University, 183
Howley, William, 153
Hubbard, Henry, 67
Hudson’s Bay Company, 91, 111, 227
Hughes, Rev. Griffith, 132
Hull, 115–116, 120
Hume, David, 39
Humphreys, David, 72
Humphry, Mary, 180
Humphry, Sir
George Murray, 180
Hunt, Dr James, 198–199
Hutcheson, Samuel, 100
Hutton, John, 40
Hutton, V. W., 186
Île de Gorée, Senegal, 133
The Index, 198, 200
India and the Indian subcontinent, 15, 63, 68, 89, 91, 116, 144–146, 176, 195
Inns of Court, 19, 22, 25, 31, 36, 39, 75, 201
Ireland, 16, 52–54, 63, 69
Ireland, John, 153
Isaacson, Rev. Stephen, 158–159
Islamic slave trade, 11, 134–135, 184
Izard, Ralph, 19, 36
Jackson, Keith Alexander, 47
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’, 195
Jamaica
abolition, 15, 162
artistic depictions of, 155
Association of Jamaican Proprietors, 48
battles in, 120
benefactor connections to, 192
Bickell family, 159
Bigland family, 39
Board of Longitude plans in, 89
Cowell family, 194
Duke of Albemarle, 27
enslaved revolts in, 114, 172
fellowship connections to plantations in, 27, 29, 147, 181
free Black people in, 39
free protests in, 190
Fulke Rose, 28, 78
Fuller family, 28
indentureship, 15, 192
Long family, 28
missionary activity in, 67–68, 159
Monk Lewis’s account of, 162
prison labour in, 157
proslavery lobby, 119–120, 122, 128–129
racism following abolition, 179
Rev. John Riland’s novel, 123–124
Ricketts family, 128
Rose family, 89–90
scientific collecting in, 81, 83
Seal of, 60–61
slave advertisements, 117
student connections to plantations in, 23, 27, 29, 37, 40–42, 46–47, 117, 202
student familial connections to, 47, 75
sugar exports, 145
Tharp family, 202
Thistlewood, 12
wealth, 8
Yorke Family, 39
James I, 7, 57, 59
James II, 11, 60, 62
Jefferson, Thomas, 14, 100, 102, 110, 169–170
Jeffrey, Francis, 148
Jenkinson, Charles, 1st Earl of Liverpool, 122, 152
Jenkinson, Robert, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 138
Jesus College, Cambridge
alumni and the trans-Saharan slave trade, 135
alumni who supported the abolition movement, 117
alumni who supported the proslavery movement, 158
Coleridge’s address in Bristol, 114
college investments in the South Sea Company, 64
Fellows who supported the abolition movement, 112, 115, 166
Fellows with familial connections to the slave trade, 75
members’ support for Sierra Leone Company, 130
Rustat’s benefaction, 60
students with connections to the plantation economy, 23, 40
students with connections to the slave trade, 75
subscribers to abolitionist literature, 113
Thomas Robert Malthus and, 14
William Frend’s expulsion from, 121
Jesus College, Oxford, 98
Johnson, Samuel, 79, 107
Jones, Hugh, 82
Jones, Rev. Richard, 147
Jones, Rev. Thomas, 130
Jones, Thomas, 110, 112
Jones, William, 80
Jowett, Rev. Joseph, 130
Jowett, Rev. William, 119
Keene, Edmund, 75, 108
Kennedy, Benjamin Hall, 195
Key, Thomas Hewitt, 168
Kidder, Richard, 71
Kimber, John, 126–128
King, William, 81
King’s College, Cambridge
Byam’s bequest, 32
Draper’s fellowship and donation, 107
Elliott’s benefaction, 63
Fellows and opposition to indentured labour, 191
Fellows and students with connections to the plantation economy, 146
Fellows and the SPG, 71
Fellows who supported amelioration, 155
Fellowship investments in the EIC, 146
former Confederates attend dinner at, 200
Jermyn Cowell’s friendship with Oscar Browning, 289
member donations to the SPCK, 67
members’ involvement in the Anthropological Society of London, 199
Randolph’s support for the proslavery movement, 124
subscribers to abolitionist literature, 113
Witt’s support for the Confederacy, 198–199
King’s College, London, 173
Kingsley, Charles, 187–190, 192, 199, 201
Kingsley, Frances, 189
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 38, 230
Knox, William, 151
Komenda Wars, 9
Kościuszko, Tadeusz, 168
Ksar-el-Kebir, Battle of, 160
Kynaston, Edward, 96
Laing, Robert Griffin, 177
Lamb, Charles, 158
Lamb, John, 160
Lamb, William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 141
Lambert, James, 112
Lascelles, Edward, 76
Latrobe, Charles Joseph, 169
Laughton, Richard, 65
Laurens, Henry, 40
Laurens, Robert Scipio, 40
Le Grice, Rev. Charles Valentine, 142
Leahy, Col. John, 46
Leclerc, Charles, 138
Lee, Robert E., 18, 187
Legaré, Hugh Swinton, 43
Legh, George J., 111
Leiden, University of, 30
Leman, Rev. Robert, 67
Lemmon Slave Case, 102
Levant Company, 78
Lewis, George, 78
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 162
Liberia, 176, 182–184
Library Company of Philadelphia, 169
Lightfoot, John, 66
Lincoln, Abraham, 185
Lincoln College, Oxford, 97
Linneaus, Carl, 87
Lister, Martin, 76–77, 247
Liverpool
abolitionist activism in, 115–116
banking in, 115, 192
Fellows with connections to the transatlantic slave economy, 27
novels mention, 123
proslavery lobby in, 153
Sir Thomas Smith as the Member of Parliament for, 53
students with connections to the transatlantic slave economy from, 20, 43
Livingstone, David, 184
Lloyd, Dame Elizabeth, 94
Lloyd, Sir Nathaniel
advice to the South Sea Company, 94
benefactions and loans to various causes, 96–98
Codrington benefaction, 95–96
Education of, 90
election of Thomas Tenison to a fellowship, 27
investments in the East India Company, 94
investments in the Royal African Company, 95
investments in the South Sea Company, 94–95, 255
John Radcliffe donation, 97
Nevis legal advice, 93
piracy cases, 93–94
Saint-Domingue plantation case, 92
work on the law of contraband, 92
Lloyd, Sir Richard, 90–91, 94–95
Locke, John, 28, 61, 117
Lockyer, Charles, 246
London and Westminster Bank, 195
London Assurance Company, 27
London Hausa Association, 184
London Missionary Society, 46
The London Society of West India Planters and Merchants, 119, 153
Long, Beeston, 32
Long, Edward, 12
Long, George, 169
Long, Sir Charles, 181
Long, William, 32
Louis XIV, 122
Louisiana, 13–14, 73, 88, 165, 185, 200
Louverture, Toussaint, 129, 181
Lovell, Michael, 38
Loving, Richard, 31
Lowndes, Thomas, 48
Lowther, George, 93
Lowther, Robert, 93–94
Maberly, Rev. Frederick Herbert, 47, 150
Macaulay, Zachary, 130, 142
Macocke, Rev. Samuel, 56
Madagascar, 9
Madden, R. R., 169
Magdalene College, Cambridge
college investments in the EIC, 243
fellowship connections to the plantation economy, 27
Colony of Georgia, 73–74
fellowship investments in the SSC, 31
members’ support for the SPCK, 67
Peckard’s antislavery views, 23, 108
student support for abolition, 111, 113
Magdalene College, Oxford, 123
Magna Carta, 120, 201
Mahogany, 13, 114
Malden, Daniel, 78
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 141
Mandell, Rev. William, 141
Mandeville, John, 31
Manners-Sutton, Charles, 28
Mapletoft, John, 61, 67
Marriott, Sir James, 126–128
Marsh, Herbert, 129
Marsh, Rev. H. A., 176
Martin, Samuel, 22, 224
Martineu, Harriet, 179
Martyn, John, 86–87
Martyn, Thomas, 86–88
Mary I, 53
Maryland, 14, 37
Maskelyne, Edmund, 89
Maskelyne, Nevil, 88–90
Mason, Rev. Charles, 82–83
Massachusetts, 55
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 169
Massey, John, 93
Mawson, Matthias, 68–69
May, Samuel, 38
Mayer, Tobias, 89
Mayers, John Pollard, 158, 161–162
McCabe, W. Gordon, 168
McKenzie, William, 191
McRae, Colin J., 200
Melvil, Thomas, 49
Melville, Elizabeth, 176
Member of the University of Cambridge, 144–146
Merchants
advice to student families, 36
Apthorp’s dealings with, 75
chaperoning students, 29, 38, 40
fellowship connections to, 45
fellowship support for the children of, 99
Hull traders, 116
impact of the American Revolution on, 98
involvement in missionary enterprises, 152
involvement in the proslavery movement, 119
Manchester support for the Bulama Association, 131
participation in the colonisation of Barbados, 7
Saint-Domingue traders, 92
significance of enslaved people as commodities, 154
student connections to, 21, 32, 47
support for the Confederacy, 200
tobacco traders, 24, 26, 36
tutor connections to, 104
West African elites, 134–135
Merry, Robert, 111
Metacom and Weetamoo’s War, 8, 55
Mickleburgh, John, 82
Middleton, Arthur, 19
Middleton, Conyers, 82
Mill, John Stuart, 190
Miller, Charles, 87
Miller, Philip, 87
Miller, Samuel, 43
Milner, Isaac, 119
Mississippi, 185, 198
Mitchell, William Stephen, 199
Monck, Christopher, 2nd Duke of Albermarle, 27, 227
Monins, Richard, 31
Montagu, John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, 39
Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 78
Montaigne, George, 59
Moore, James, 111
Moore, Richard, 111
Morant Bay Rebellion, 190, 192
More, Sir Thomas, 54
Morland, Samuel, 78
Morocco, 160
Morris, Sarah, 82
Mortlock, John, 141
Morton, Thomas, 51
Mosman, George, 66
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 190
Murray, John II, 168
Murray, William, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 50, 125, 231
Musgrave, Thomas, 145
Native Americans, 62
collections of objects in Cambridge, 78
colonial attempts to educate and evangelise, 52, 66, 69, 72, 108
English concerns about enslavement of, 55
impact of Spanish colonisation on, 62
involvement in natural scientific discoveries, 78
resistance to white colonisers, 11
universities and dispossession of, 4, 57
white enslavement of, 8, 10, 23, 55, 57, 60
white racism toward, 12, 14, 54, 56–57
Nelson, Thomas, 42
Nelson, William, 42
Nevis, 20, 82–83, 93, 124
New England, 59, 60, 115, 168–169, 188, 196
New Jersey, 49
New York, 28, 72–73, 102, 168, 170, 172, 175, 177, 182, 196
New York Conspiracy of 1741, 73
New York Slave Revolt of 1712, 72–73
New Zealand, 165, 175, 195, 290
Newman, Henry, 67
Newmarket, 31
Newnham College, Cambridge, 192–193
Newton, Benjamin, 23, 41–42
Newton, Henry, 92
Newton, Rev. John, 124
Newton, Sir Isaac, 23, 78, 80, 85
Newton, Thomas, 72
Nicholl, Sir John, 98
Norris, Robert, 129
North Carolina, 101
North, Brownlow, 132
Norton, John, 24, 42
Norton, John Hatley, 24
Oates, Titus, 62
Ockley, Simon, 72
Oglethrope, James, 68
O’Kelly, Cornelius, 92
O’Kelly, Hughes, 92
Oldenburg, Henry, 77
Ollivant, Rev. Alfred, 176
Oriel College, Oxford, 81
Oswestry, Shropshire, 91, 97
Otey, James Hervey, 164–165
Oxenden, George, 64
Oxford, University of, 5, 7, 56, 59, 165, 177
Oxford (enslaved man), 83
Oxford and Cambridge University Club, 48
Padua, University of, 5, 53
Paine, Thomas, 121
Paley, William, 104, 117–118, 140, 142, 174, 264
Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, 121
Panell, George, 173
Paris, Rev. John, 64
Paris, University of, 5, 24
Park, Mungo, 135–136
Parker, Robert, 111
Patrick, Simon, 72
Peacock, George, 48
Pearce, Zachary, 31
Peckard, Peter
antislavery thought of, 108–109
Cambridge essay question on slavery, 109
conversations with Equiano, 110
donation to the Sierra Leone Company, 130
reaction to his antislavery thought, 111
recognition of, 143
support for education reform, 23
Pelham-Holles, Thomas, 1st Duke of Newcastle, 25
Pellett, Thomas, 81
Pelling, Edward, 69
Pembroke College
Cambridge, 37–38, 60
Oxford, 59
Penfold, Sir Thomas, 91
Penn, William, 196
Pennant, Henry, 228
Pennsylvania, 19, 38, 140, 196, 198
Pequot War, 55
Perceval, Sir John, 25
Perkins, Thomas H., 169
Perrott, Henry, Jr., 64
Perry, Micajah, 36
The Perse School, 175
Peterhouse, Cambridge
donors to the abolition movement, 111
Fellows and the Anthropological Society of London, 199
Fellows visiting parliamentary debates, 115
fellowship support for St Paul’s College in Bermuda, 178
Keene’s ameliorationist views, 75, 108
members’ support for the Sierra Leone Company, 130
Some’s mastership, 59
students with connections to the transatlantic economy, 37
Vernon and natural science, 81
Petiver, James, 83, 85
The Phrenological Journal, 171
Pinckney, Elizabeth, 88
Pinder, Rev. John Hothersall, 154
Pine, Robert Edge, 37
Pinfold, Charles, 64
Pitcairn, Archibald, 67
Pitt, William (the Younger), 28, 43, 114, 119, 121, 125–126, 136
Planters
Abdy’s attacks on, 170
advice for plantation owners, 22
Australian sugar estates, 191–192
Berkeley’s ownership of a plantation, 69
British compensation for Saint-Domingue slaveholders, 181
Byrd family, 25
Codrington’s donation to the SPG, 95, 154
compensation to enslavers, 15
contributions to missionary causes, 153–154
diversification of income streams, 8
donations to Edinburgh University, 191
donations to the Cockerell Building, 181–182
Earl of Liverpool’s trusteeship of a plantation, 138
enslaved people brought to Britain, 39
fellowship connections to, 27, 44, 104, 106, 128, 147, 150, 166
Fuller family, 28
Gamble family and Florida, 193
Gilbert Franklyn’s ownership of estates, 128
Henry Nelson Coleridge’s support for, 155–156
hiring of plantation tutors, 46
impact of Haitian Revolution on, 45
integrated plantation system, 7–8
interest in mathematics, 23
interest in natural science, 78
involvement in the abolition movement, 162
involvement in the proslavery movement, 159
Irish on Saint-Domingue, 92
Kingsley’s concerns about abolition, 187
loans to, 196
Maskelyne’s marriage into the Rose family, 89
MP connections to, 197
Newmarket plantation, 31
proposals for planting in Virginia, 57
proposals to plant coffee in the British Caribbean, 85
registration of enslaved people, 202
resistance to enslaved revolts, 46
social contacts in Britain, 24
soundscape of the plantation, 13
student connections to, 19–21, 32, 37–38, 40, 43, 47–48, 64, 111, 162, 192, 194
support for the abolition of the slave trade, 15
Thomas Thistlewood’s treatment of enslaved people, 12
tutors who educated children connected to, 27
Plowden, Sir Edmund, 32
Political Economy Club, 194
Pollard, John, 28
Pollard, Walter, 28
Porteus, Beilby, 130, 150–153, 177, 275
Porteus, Robert, 150
Pory, John, 56
Postlethwaite, Rev. Thomas, 130
Postlethwayt, Malachy, 131
Postlewhaite, Thomas, 27
Potts, Robert, 169
Powhatan, 52, 56
Poydras, Julien de Lallande, 88
Prichard, James Cowles, 180
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, 202
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 104, 138
Princess Augusta, 99
Princeton Theological Seminary, 43
Princeton University, 24
Proby, Charles, 64
Pryme, George, 148, 274
Purchas, Samuel, 51, 132
Quaque, Philip, 49
Québec, 126
Queens’ College
Cambridge, 6, 27, 31, 37–38, 53–54, 59, 68, 72, 78, 81, 104, 106, 113, 115, 119, 121, 131, 141–142, 152, 172, 176, 180, 228, 263
Oxford, 28, 95
Quintard, William, 164–165
Radcliffe, John, 97, 257
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 52
Ramsay, David, 101
Ramsay, James, 151
Randall, John, 118
Randolph, Francis, 124–125
Randolph, John, 26
Randolph, Thomas, 124
Rawlinson, John Job, 143
Ray, John, 57, 77, 82
Recorde, Robert, 23
Reepe, John, 67
Reform Act of 1832, 147
Renouard, George Cecil, 132
Republican Party, 188
Reve, Clare, 123
Rice, Thomas Spring, 1st Baron Monteagle, 148, 181
Richard II, 53
Ricketts, George Poyntz, 127
Ricketts, Jacob, 128
Ricketts, Sophia, 127
Rigaud, Andre, 181
Riggs-Miller, Sir John, 131
Riland, Rev. John, 123–124
Roberts, Ernest Stewart, 192
Robinson, F. J., 1st Viscount Goderich, 162
Robinson, Rev. Robert, 118, 275
Roderick, Richard, 31
Rodney, George Brydges, 1st Baron Rodney, 120
Romilly, Joseph, 162, 179
Rose, Elizabeth Langley, 78
Rose, Fulke, 28
Rose, John Pate, 89
Rose, Laetitia, 89
Rose, Sophia, 89
Roth, George Kingsley, 192
Roth, Henry Ling, 191–192
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 87
Routh, Edward J., 199
Rowlands, Rev. J., 176
Royal Academy of Music, 81
Royal African Company, 9, 11, 28, 31, 38, 45, 49, 60, 76, 80–81, 91, 93, 95, 230, 235, 247, 250
Royal College of Physicians, 76, 81, 132
Royal College of Surgeons, 180
Royal Commission of 1850, 174
Royal Geographical Society, 136, 169
Royal Institution, 29, 227
Royal Mines Company, 67
Royal Navy, 119–120, 130
Royal Society, 25, 29, 39, 76–77, 79, 82, 85–86, 89, 99, 227
Ruffin, Thomas, 101
Rule, Alexander, 67
Ruskin, John, 190
Russel, Richard, 86
Russell, Henry, 173
Rustat, Tobias, 60
Rutherforth, Thomas, 99–101, 104, 166, 259
Saint Kitts, 20, 150
Saint Vincent, 157, 166, 191
Saint-Domingue/Haiti, 12
British invasion of, 181
coffee exports from, 85
fellowship connections to plantations in, 285
French attempt to recapture, 138
Haitian Declaration of Independence, 142
Haitian Revolution, 14, 44, 105, 129, 146, 158–159, 161, 188
Irish plantations in, 92
Kingdom of Haiti, 144
plantation manuals from, 12
Santo Domingo Board, 181
Wesleyan mission to, 142
Saintes, Battle of the, 120
Salmon, Thomas, 132
Salomons, David Lionel, 195
Salomons, Sir David, 194–195
Sancho, Charles Ignatius, 231
Sancroft, William, 60–61
Sandy, George, 27
Sandys, Sir Edwin, 52
Santo Domingo, 11
Savage, William, 32
Sawbridge, Jacob, 95
Sayer, Exton, 64
Scarlett, James, 47, 111
Scholefield, Rev. James, 143–144, 160, 175, 177, 181, 184
Scipio (enslaved man), 86–87
Scott, Sir William, 98
Secker, Thomas, 151
Sedgwick, Rev. Adam, 147, 181, 274
Selwyn, George, 165
Selwyn, Rev. William, 199
Selwyn, William, 165, 184–185
Selwyn College, Cambridge, 165
Sewanee Mining Company, 164
Seymour, Edward, 1st Duke of Somerset, 53
Seymour, John, 53
Shakespeare, William, 12, 56, 140
Sharp, Granville, 50, 108, 116, 123, 130, 236
Sharpe, Samuel, 173
Shaw, Caesar, 231
Sherlock, Thomas, 70
Sibbald, Sir Robert, 66
Sidgwick, Henry, 193
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 52, 68, 87, 104, 109, 111–112, 138, 158
Siena, University of, 5
Sierra Leone
abolitionist support for colonisation in, 130, 143, 146
apprenticeship in, 130–131
Clayton’s support for mission in, 175, 177
Devaynes’s support for colonisation, 50
proposal for a bishopric in, 119
subscriptions to the Sierra Leone Company, 130
Simeon, Charles, 119
Simmons, Ruth, 202
Simpson, Robert, 36
Skerret, Helen, 92
Slave Compensation Act, 162, 181
Slave Registry Bill of 1815, 202
Slave Trade Felony Act, 138
Slavery Abolition Act, 15, 173, 202
Slidell, John, 186, 200
Sloane, Sir Hans, 78, 82–83, 85–86
Smallpox, 8, 10, 16, 22, 96
Smith, Adam, 7, 146
Smith, Andrew, 86–87
Smith, Rev. John, 46
Smith, Rev. Joseph, 95
Smith, Rev. Richard, 27
Smith, Rev. William, 82
Smith, Sir Thomas, 53–54
Smyth, William, 115
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 4, 111–112
Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, 140–141
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 67–68, 96, 177
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 49–50
Barbados Committee, 50, 95–96
Codrington donation, 67, 95, 152
donations to, 67, 96–97
intellectual support for, 69, 72–73, 108, 126, 151
ministers in Massachusetts, 75
Thomas Thompson’s work for, 49–50
Society for the Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West Indies, 152–153
Society of Friends, 106, 109, 168, 173, 196
Some, Robert, 59
Somers Island Company, 55, 59
Somerset Decision, 40, 125
South Carolina, 8, 19–20, 28, 40, 48, 73, 88, 101, 185
South Sea Company
abolitionist attacks on, 118
college investments in, 64–66, 69, 96–97
history of, 9, 11
individual investments in, 31, 36, 64–65, 71, 79, 80, 82, 86, 97, 104, 224–255, 257
officials of, 69, 95, 99, 246
scarcity of stock records, 229
scientific collecting for, 86
SPCK investments in, 68
trading problems in the Spanish Americas, 94
Southern Prisoners’ Relief Fund, 193
Southwell, Sir Robert, 25
Spanish colonisation of Hispaniola, 62
Spelman, Sir Henry, 58
Spotswood, Alexander, 150
Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar, 171
St Andrews, University of, 95
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 13, 66–67, 70, 88, 178
St Helena, 65, 89, 97
St John’s College, Cambridge
alumni as tutors in the Caribbean, 46
alumni teaching in the United States, 168
alumni who supported the proslavery movement, 128, 158, 161
Crashaw’s donation, 51
donations from men connected to the colonisation of Ireland, 53
donations to the abolition movement, 141
donors who supported African exploration projects, 132
education of Rutherforth at, 99
Fellows and racial science, 76–77
fellowship donations to the SPG, 245
fellowship donations to the SSC, 31
fellowship participation in the abolition movement, 119
fellowship support for St Paul’s College in Bermuda, 178
Henry Venn’s education at, 118
Marsh’s discussion of the Haitian Revolution, 129
members’ subscriptions to the Sierra Leone Company, 130
members’ support for dissenters, 121–
members’ support for the Virginia Company, 51–52, 56
memorialisation of Wilberforce, 202
Sir Ralph Hare’s donation to, 58
student connections to the plantation economy, 47, 104, 162
student connections to the transatlantic economy, 37, 51
students and the ASL, 199
students with connections to the transatlantic economy, 37
Thomas Clarkson’s attendance at, 109
Wilberforce’s education at, 119
St John’s College, Oxford, 60
Stanton, Henry Brewster, 175
Stapleton, John, 92
Stephens, Alexander H., 185
Stephens, William, 69
Stevenson, Sir Archibald, 67
Stockton, Owen, 75
Stoner, Anthony Morris, 230
The Stono Rebellion, 73
Stourbridge Fair, 6
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 173, 197
Stuart, J. E. B., 200
Sudan, 134
Sugar
abolitionist attacks on, 145
abolitionist support for, 144, 146–147
Agricultural Society dedicated to, 156
Australian plantations growing, 191–192
consumption of, 13, 32, 114
duties on, 162
efforts to ameliorate plantations producing, 146
enslaved people eating, 12
exporting of, 145
fluctuating price of, 15, 44
missionary support for plantations in Africa, 184
plantations producing, 8, 13, 15, 37, 44, 90
poems concerning, 161
production in Morocco, 160
proslavery support for, 119, 129
student name-calling, 46
threat of foreign imports, 163
use in property leasing arrangements, 160
wealth from producing, 20
Sugar Duties Act, 163
Sumatra, 87
Sumner, John Bird, 178
Surinam, 83, 85, 152
Swedish Africa Company, 49
Tacky’s Revolt, 114
Taíno, 62
Tait, William, 170
Tarleton, Banastre, 43
Tarleton, John, 43
Tarleton, John Collingwood, 43
Taylor, John, 101–102
Taylor, Richard, 200
Taylor, Simon, 37
Taylor, Thomas, 62
Temple, Henry John, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 37, 187, 198
Tenison, Edward, 27
Tenison, Rev. Thomas, 27, 69, 79
Tenison, Thomas, 27
Texas, 14, 185, 203
Thackeray, Martin, 146
Tharp, John, 117, 202
Tharp, Joseph, 202
Thellusson, Peter Isaac, 1st Baron Rendlesham, 47
Thellusson, William, 47
Thirty Years’ War, 99
Thistlewood, Thomas, 11
Thomason, Thomas Truebody, 113, 263
Thompson, Henry Yates, 192, 289
Thompson, Samuel Henry, 192
Thompson, Thomas, 49–50, 75, 114
Thompson, Thomas Perronet, 131, 163
Thompson, William Hepworth, 164
Thornton, Samuel, 130
Timbuktu, 133, 136
The Times, 186, 190, 286
Tindal, Sir Nicholas Conyngham, 182, 197
Tobacco
consumption of, 32, 58–59
distribution on slave ships, 10
Inspection Act, 25
plantations growing, 8, 14, 57
students with familial connections to plantations producing, 19
traders, 24, 26, 36, 76, 115
Virginia Company and, 52, 56
Tobago, 128
Tobin, James, 124
Townes, Thomas, 76, 109
Townley, James, 142–143
Townshend, Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend, 97
Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney, 120
Transatlantic traders of enslaved Africans, 132
Abolitionists campaign against, 116
brandings, 11
British abolition of, 138
collaboration with African explorers, 134
fellowship connections to, 27, 75
insurance arrangements, 27
involvement in natural science, 81, 83
legal cases involving, 92, 98, 126–127
Massachusetts and the legalistion of the slave trade, 60
student connections to, 21, 24, 43, 233
Tarleton family, 43
Thomas Salmon’s attacks against, 132
Treaty of Utrecht, 9, 93
Trinidad, 47, 155–156
Trinity College, Cambridge
alumni support for the proslavery movement, 128
alumni teaching in the United States, 168
attendance at Crummell’s speech, 176
collections of curiosities, 78–79
consumption of tobacco, 58
Cotton’s education at, 59
Craister’s benefaction, 63
Crummell dining at, 179
donations to the abolition movement, 111, 130, 141
donations to the SPCK, 67, 177
donations to the Wren Library, 27
donors who supported African exploration, 132
Farish’s education at, 106
Fellows and correspondence with anti-slave-trade activists, 112
Fellows opposed to investing, 31
Fellows who invested in the SSC, 31, 80, 82
Fellows with familial ties to the plantations, 27, 29
Fellows with natural scientific interests in the Caribbean, 82–83
fellowship opinions on emancipation, 162
former members and Berkeley’s scheme, 69
founding of Statistical Section at, 147
Hinchcliffe’s support for amelioration, 108
individual investments in the RAC, 31
involvement in the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, 184
Jones selling copies of Equiano’s slave narrative, 110
Mapletoft’s investments in the Company of Adventurers, 61
Maskelyne’s education and fellowship at, 88–89
member support for the SPG, 72
members’ attitudes to the American Civil War, 186, 193
members involved in the Virginia Company, 52
Subscriptions to the Sierra Leone Company, 130
Support for the Union, 286
racial attitudes of the fellowship, 181
Ray’s lectures supporting American colonisation, 57
student poetry in support of slavery, 161
students with familial ties to the plantations, 22–23, 26–28, 31, 37, 40, 46–47, 192, 202
subscribers to abolitionist literature, 113
subscribers to American travel literature, 115
support for St Paul’s College in Bermuda, 178
support for the Colony of Georgia, 74
Thomas Newton’s support for the Curse of Ham myth, 72
Trinity College, Dublin, 53
Trinity College, Oxford, 97
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
alumni support for Native American slavery, 55
Bridgetower’s education at, 45
Cockburn and Saint-Domingue, 181
donations to the abolition movement, 111
Fellows debating enslavement, 125
Fellows who invested in the EIC, 64
Fellows with ties to slave trading, 27
Lloyd’s benefaction, 97
Marriott’s adjudication of the Kimber case, 126
members’ donations to the Sierra Leone Company, 130
ownership of East India securities, 195
student opposition to the Confederacy, 186
students with connections to the plantations, 26, 37–38
ties to the Doctors’ Commons, 91–92
Wynne’s donation to, 98
Wynne’s education at, 98
Tucker, St George, 136
Tudway, Thomas, 45
Turner, J. M. W., 29
Tweddell, John, 112
Tyschen, Thomas Christian, 134
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, 184–185
University College, Oxford, 97, 113
University of Cambridge Petitions to the House of Commons, 3, 115, 122, 138–139
University of the South, 164–166
University of Virginia, 168
Upper Appomattox Canal Company, 193
Uppsala University, 131
van Beethoven, Ludwig, 45
Venn, Henry (Church Missionary Society), 119, 176, 180
Venn, Rev. Henry, 118, 141
Vernon, William, 81
Victoria I, 178, 200
Vienna, University of, 171
Vignier, Yolande, 181
Virginia
academic support for colonisation in, 56
alumni and former fellows who emigrated to, 169
Black experimentation in, 77
Byrd’s visit from, 25
Cavalier myth, 196
end of Company rule, 59
First Anglo-Powhatan War, 62
Gamble benefaction, 193
General Assembly of, 56
Gooch’s governorship, 25–26
Irish indentured servitude in, 52
missionary activity in, 23
Native American enslavement in, 8
opposition to English educations, 42, 232
origins of African enslavement in, 55
parental wills, 22
Pollard family, 28
Porteus family, 150
Samuel Purchas’s writings about, 132
scientific collections from, 81
scientists travelling to, 82
significance of Irish colonisation to, 54
Slave Codes of 1705, 60
slavery challenged in, 100–
students from, 19–21, 26, 28, 33–34, 37, 64
transportation of impoverished children to, 57
Tucker’s proposals for gradual abolition, 136
William Byrd II’s visit to Cambridge, 25
Virginia Company
1622 massacre, 56
Cambridge support for, 51, 54
investments in, 58–59
proposals for the education of Native Americans, 52
Sir Edward Coke’s role in, 10
trading activities of, 7
transportation of impoverished children, 57
von Humboldt, Alexander, 78
von Pufendorf, Samuel, 100
Wadham College, Oxford, 96, 256
Wakefield, Gilbert, 115–117
Wakefield, William, 195
Walker, Jacob, 169
Walker, L. P., 197
Walker, Richard, 78, 85
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 199
Walpole, Robert, 97
Wampanoag, 8
War of the Spanish Succession, 92–94
Ward, Nathaniel, 60
Waring, Edward, 68
Warren, John, 128
Washington, D.C., 168, 182–183
Washington, George, 8, 38
Waterhouse, Edward, 56
Waterloo, Battle of, 147
Watson, Richard, 108, 132–133, 135–136
Watson, William, 173
Wedgwood, Josiah, 110
Wells, Ida B., 174
West, Benjamin, 19, 37, 230
West India Lobby, 119–120, 122, 128, 161
Westminster School, 36, 88
Whewell, William, 141, 177–178, 181
Whisson, Stephen, 29, 67
Whitaker, Alexander, 52
Whitaker, William, 52
Whitmore, Rev. George, 121
Whitney, Eli, 14
Wilberforce, William
antislavery advocacy in Parliament, 113, 136
antislavery thought, 140
correspondence with Matthew Gregory Lewis, 162
founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 152
funding of Crummell’s attendance at Cambridge, 172
integral role in the Clapham Sect, 119
involvement in Thompson’s dismissal, 131
Jesse Foot’s opposition to, 90
opposition to vice and immorality, 151
recognition of, 111, 184
role in Kimber’s trial, 127
support for African exploration, 132
support for Haiti mission, 142
William IV, 104, 114
Williams, Charley, 13
Williams, Francis, 39
Williams, John, 39
Williams, Roger, 60
Winne, Luttrell, 132
Winthrop, John, 60
Witherspoon, John, 24
Witt, John George, 198, 200–201, 292
Wollaston, Francis, 130
Wood, Capt. Roger, 63
Woodward, John, 16, 79–82
Wordsworth, Christopher, 177
Wordsworth, William, 106
Wormeley, Ralph V, 19, 37
Wortley, Bartholomew, 65, 75
Wriothesley, Henry, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 51
Wynn, Rev. H. E., 266
Wynne, John, 98
Wynne, Sir William, 98
Yates, Elizabeth, 192
Yates, Joseph Brooks, 192
Yorke, Charles Philip, 148, 150
Yorke, John, 39–40
Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, 93, 123
Yorke, Rev. James, 123, 266
Yorkshire, 20
Young, Arthur, 22
Young, Sir William, 128
Young, Thomas, 66
Zong massacre, 109, 114

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