Series 711 - Diaries of Zachary Macaulay in the West Indies and Sierra Leone

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Add. MS a/711

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Diaries of Zachary Macaulay in the West Indies and Sierra Leone

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  • May 1795-Oct. 1798 (Creation)

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5 vols.

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(1768-1838)

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Son of John Macaulay and Margaret Campbell. His career was a varied one, managing an estate in Jamaica; being Governor of Sierra Leone, 1793-1709; editing the Christian Observer which was concerned with the slave trade, 1802-1816; and holding the post of secretary to the African Institute, 1807-1812. He helped form the Anti-Slavery Society in 1823. He married Selina Mills in 1799 and died in 1838.

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Gift of Lady Errington (Katharine Reine Errington, née Macaulay), Dec. 2008.

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      Papers of Zachary Macaulay, including other journals kept by him while governor of Sierra Leone, at the Huntingdon Library, California, reference no. mssMY

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