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Image Number: 
JRL22011823
Reference Number: 
R210105
Link to Catalogue: 
Parent Work Title: 
The Manchester workmen and emancipation: From the Daily News, Friday, January 2 [1863]
Date Created: 
[1863]
Publication Details: 
Manchester?: The Daily News?
Description: 
Printed in two columns. 'A record of an historic meeting held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on New Year's Eve, 1862, to found the Union and Emancipation Society, one of a number of pro-Union groups which sprang up across Britain that year. Intended to show working class support for the anti-slavery side of the Civil War, the broadside has added weight for being the production of a city that was one of Europe's largest cotton producers' - [excerpt from sale catalogue of Bow Windows Bookshop, Lewes].
Language Code: 
eng-GB
Language: 
English
Subject: 
Antislavery movements--England--Manchester
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Broadsides
Technique Used: 
Printing (process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
England: Greater Manchester: Manchester
Item Height: 
432 mm
Item Width: 
345 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2022-01-27
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2022-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands