Handbill headed 'At a Special General Meeting Of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Anti-Slavery Society Held in Brunswick Place Chapel [...] for the Purpose of considering the present State of the NEGRO POPULATION in the West Indies [...].

On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium. Leaf dimensions 38 x 22 cm. 59 lines. A small area, approximately 1.5 x 2.5 cm has been torn away, resulting in slight loss to the text, the gaps being easy to fill in ('[...] Motion b [...] | [...] It nimously [...] | [...] Mee of Opinion [...]'). The hole has been repaired on the reverse; otherwise the page is in fair condition, on lightly-aged and foxed paper. Brougham, in the first of four unanimously-resolved motions, deplores that 'no effectual Measures should yet have been taken to deliver our beloved Country from the foul Crime of holding 800,000 of our unoffending Fellow-Subjects in the Fetters of one of the most degraded and detestable States of Bondage, to which any portion of the Human Species has ever been Subject'. The second leaf of the bifolium carries on its recto an Autograph Letter Signed from Fenwick to Thorp & Dickson, solicitors, of Alnwick, dated from Newcastle upon Tyne, 18 August 1830, regarding a client's share dealings. Addressed, with postmark, on reverse of second leaf, and docketed on grubby reverse of first leaf.