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Letters written by Vassa
Vassa to Ottobah Cugoano (John Stewart) 4 April 1787
Vassa to Robert Lowth Lord Bishop of London March 1779
Vassa to Granville Sharp 6 May 1780
Vassa to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury 12 May 1787
Vassa to Lord Hawkesbury 13 March 1788
Vassa to Queen Charlotte 21 March 1788
Vassa to Josiah Wedgwood November 1788
Vassa to Ann Berry 6 March 1789
Vassa to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 24 March 1789
Vassa to The Rev. G. Walker and Family 27 February 1792
Vassa to the Reader June 1792
Vassa to Thomas Hardy 28 May 1792
Vassa to Stanley Pumphrey 1 July 1793
Vassa to Josiah Wedgwood 21 August 1793
Vassa to Mr. or Mrs. Liversege 20 June 1794
Vassa to Peter Peckard undated
Vassa to Robert Lord Bishop of Dublin 30 May 1791
Poem Written by Vassa, The Morning Post and Gazetteer, 30 January 1798
Vassa to Robert Lord Bishop of Dublin 30 May 1791
Vassa's Review of Turnbull’s Apology for Negro Slavery, The Public Advertiser, 5 February 1788
Vassa’s Review of Cursory Remarks & Rejoinder by James Tobins, The Public Advertiser, 28 January 1788
Vassa’s Review of Humanity, or the Rights of Nature, a Poem: in Two Books by Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 27 June 1788
Vassa’s Review of Scripture Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade by Rev. Mr. Raymond Harris, The Public Advertiser, 28 April 1788
Vassa to Rev. Patrick Fraser 14 July 1787
Vassa to Lord Hawkesbury 31 March 1788
Vassa to the British Senate 19 June 1788
Vassa to the British Senate 20 June 1788
Vassa to Lord Sydney 28 June 1788
Vassa to the Author of Sable Soup and Black Bouille 5 July 1788
Vassa to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 14 February 1789
Vassa to the Printer of the Cambridge Chronicle 1 August 1789
Vassa to the Printer of Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 28 June 1790
Vassa to the Printer of the Manchester Mercury, & Harrop’s General Advertiser, 31 August 1790
Vassa to the Printer of the Sheffield Register, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, & Nottinghamshire Universal Advertiser, 2 September 1790
Vassa to the Printer of the Leeds Mercury 19 April 1791
Vassa to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Caledonian Mercury, 26 May 1792
Vassa to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Edinburgh Evening Courant, Saturday, 26 May 1792
Vassa to Inhabitants of Newcastle 6 October 1792
Vassa to Inhabitants of Norfolk, Norfolk Chronicle, 15 March 1794
Vassa’s Review of Scripture Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade by Rev. Mr. Raymond Harris, Newcastle Courant, 18 September 1824
Inscription by Vassa in Flyleaf for Granville Sharp Book 13 April 1779
Excerpt of Poetry from the Interesting Narrative mid-1770s
Vassa to Inhabitants of Norfolk, Norwich Mercury, 15 March 1794
Aris's Birmingham Gazette 28 June 1790