Description:Accounts regarding '£50,000 noted by Parliament in 1835-36 for negro education', from the reverse of letter to Rev. Thomas Swan from W. Hawkins, March 20th 1837.
The Reverend Thomas Swan (died 1857) was Professor of Theology at the College of Serampore in India in the 1820s. In 1829 he was appointed minister at Cannon Street Baptist Church. He was also secretary of the Birmingham Auxiliary of the Baptist Missionary Society. His surviving papers include annual reports of the Society which detail its work in India, South Africa and the West Indies. Swan also gave addresses on the emancipation of slaves and kept copies of correspondence with Joseph Sturge over the freeing of slaves in the West Indies in the 1830s.