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Catalogue reference: CO 101/120/13
This record is about the Petition regarding Mr. Thomas McGrath sent to Palmerston; petition from Alexander... dating from 1863 Sept 15 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Grenada, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Petition regarding Mr. Thomas McGrath sent to Palmerston; petition from Alexander Murray; various related enclosures; Mr. McGrath was employed for a time as Head Master and Inspector of Schools in Grenada; Murray's petition refers to public printing, police magistrates, education, the House of Assembly. According to Walker, Mr. McGrath charges Walker as 'an enemy to Negro Education, and as a confederate of a section in the Grenada House of Assembly who desire to perpetuate slavery.' Kortright quotes McGrath's letter in his despatch to Walker and quotes McGrath asserting that planters have been for the effective continuation of Slavery and for a revival of the slave trade due to Indian migration.
Lieutenant Governor Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright, forwarded by James Walker, Governor of Windward Islands, Grenada No. 132, Folios 77 - 111.
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