State trials at large (Taken in short hand) : the whole proceedings on the trials of Col. Despard, and the other state prisoners, before a special commission, at the new Sessions house, Horsemonger lane, Southwark, Feb. 7 and 9, 1803 ; including the indictment, the evidence on both sides, and the speeches of counsel ; to which are prefixed original and authentic memoirs of Col. Despard, and Lord Ellenborough's eloquent charge to the grand jury
by Despard, Edward Marcus
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London: Printed by W. Flint, for R. Bent, 1803. 70 pp. In later binding with former owner's name on the flyleaf. Despard was Irish but was a prominent British naval officer and colonial administrator who fashioned a interracial British community along the coast of what is now Belize. He distributed land by lottery which allowed blacks, local natives, whites, and mix race citizens equal rights to property. This angered some in power and he was recalled to England bringing his black Jamaican born wife and their son. He became involved in Irish plots to overthrow the King and was hung.
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- State trials at large (Taken in short hand) : the whole proceedings on the trials of Col. Despard, and the other state prisoners, before a special commission, at the new Sessions house, Horsemonger lane, Southwark, Feb. 7 and 9, 1803 ; including the indictment, the evidence on both sides, and the speeches of counsel ; to which are prefixed original and authentic memoirs of Col. Despard, and Lord Ellenborough's eloquent charge to the grand jury
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- Despard, Edward Marcus
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- Printed by W. Flint, for R. Bent
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- London
- Date Published
- 1803
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- race, Central America, reform, slavery, law, crime,
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