Detailed manuscript account by Lydia Prideaux of Regent Street, Plymouth, of the stay of a group of emancipated slaves from Havana, in Plymouth Workhouse, on their journey home to West Africa, 1855 with postscripts 1857-58

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Title
Detailed manuscript account by Lydia Prideaux of Regent Street, Plymouth, of the stay of a group of emancipated slaves from Havana, in Plymouth Workhouse, on their journey home to West Africa, 1855 with postscripts 1857-58
Author
  • Prideaux, Lydia
Document Type
  • Diary
Date
1855-1858
Biography
Lydia Prideaux was born in 1789 in Plymouth, Devon, to John Prideaux and Lydia Fox. She died in 1877.
Copyright and Source Archive
Material sourced from Hampshire Record Office