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National Maritime Museum

Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 MGS

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection

Date(s): 18th century - 20th century

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 214 items

Name of creator(s): Michael Graham-Stewart

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. The Collection explores aspects of the West African, Transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades from the mid eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and includes material relating to the abolition of slavery. The archive catalogued here incorporates manuscripts, printed books and pamphlets, maps and photographs. For prints and drawings and artefacts from the Graham-Stewart Collection, please contact the appropriate Museum departments.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection was purchased by the National Maritime Museum in 2002, having been assembled by Graham-Stewart over a period of 14 years.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Slavery | Social structure

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Atlantic Ocean | Oceans
West Africa | Africa
Indian Ocean