Historical place archive

Olney in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Olney in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1791–1791

Historical events in Olney

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1791
Abolitionist Verse
William Cowper · Abolitionist Literature

His anti-slavery poem The Negro's Complaint circulates in abolitionist campaigns

Provenance

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