Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Home Office: Race Relations Legislation: Files (RL symbol series)
Catalogue reference: HO 418
What's it about?
HO 418
This series relates to the preparation of Home Office sponsored legislation to promote racial equality, and to Home Office contributions to other departments' legislation where this had implications for race relations.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 418
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Race Relations Legislation: Files (RL symbol series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1974-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series relates to the preparation of Home Office sponsored legislation to promote racial equality, and to Home Office contributions to other departments' legislation where this had implications for race relations.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Files are in former reference order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier and related files on race relations can be found in: HO 376
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- RL symbol series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Home Office, Community Programmes and Equal Opportunities Department, 1977-1977
- Home Office, Community Programmes Department, 1972-1977
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 68 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 Home Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Race relations
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1975-1999
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Standard appraisal criteria for policy files
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Files in the RL series were created by the Race Relations Legislation Unit within I1 Division (Community Programmes Department). The Unit was set up in 1975, and continued until it was disbanded in 1999, when its work absorbed by the Community Programmes and Equal Opportunities Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16265/
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