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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Question of the permanent removal from USA to Jamaica of 70,000 'free black and coloured...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/350/3
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- CO 137/350/3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860 June 7
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Description (What the record is about)
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Question of the permanent removal from USA to Jamaica of 70,000 'free black and coloured persons' (from Arkansas, Maryland and Virginia), reason to believe they might be forcibly expelled from their country or be reduced again to position of slaves.
Charles Henry Darling, Governor of Jamaica, Jamaica No. 82, Folios 18-30
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 6416/1860
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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