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Neck ring
Description:
An enslaved African would have worn this iron neck collar. It would have had a padlock and chain linking the slave to another one.
Copyright: Lent by owner
Leg shackles
Description:
Shackles, found in a Liverpool warehouse. Slaves might be shackled by the leg, wrist or neck to prevent them from escaping or rebelling.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:T 9782
Leg irons
Description:
Leg irons used to shackle male enslaved Africans.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Plan of slave ship Brookes
Description:
Plan of the Liverpool slave ship the Brookes, from anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarksons History of the Slave Trade. The plan shows how the enslaved Africans would have been positioned inside the hull of the ship.
Creator: Thomas Clarkson
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Gambia muster roll
Description:
Ships muster rolls from 1770 – 1771; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 68.
Muster roll for the ship, the Gambia, sailing from Africa and Barbados, 1769, with Banfield’s name.
The Gambia sailed for The Gambia in West Africa and Barbados in the Caribbean. The number of slaves bought is not known, but 200 were sold at Barbados. Joseph Banfield was separated from his ship and helped by Africans living on the coast. He was rescued and returned to his ship by the wife of the governor of Fort James, an English trading fort in Gambia, West Africa.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Detail from A View of ye Jason Privateer (right hand side vignette)
Description:
Painting detail (right hand side vignette) from A View of ye Jason Privateer (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock.
Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.
Creator: Nicholas Pocock
Date: c. 1760
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M671
Will of Edward Mapham, mariner
Description:
Will of Edward Mapham of Bristol, mariner. Sailors might make their will before setting out on a voyage.
Creator: Edward Mapham
Date: 16th November 1749
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Page from log book of Black Prince
Description:
Page 5 (left) from the log book of the slave ship Black Prince. This page is a record of buying slaves.
Page 6 (right) from the log book of the slave ship Black Prince. This page records the first slave death and attempted revolt of the slaves at sea.
Page 2 (left) from the log book of the slave ship Black Prince. This page is a record of putting up bulkheads (or partitions) for mens and womens compartments.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Bill of lading for beads
Description:
Bill of lading for beads shipped by Noblet Ruddock to Africa. 1719.
A bill of lading is an official record of goods being carried on a ship.
Creator: Noblet Ruddock
Date: 1719
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Letter from agents to traders
Description:
Letter from Benjamin King and Robert Arbuthnbot in Antigua to Isaac Hobhouse and Stephen Baugh in Bristol.
Creator: Benjamin King and Robert Arbuthnbot
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:J 1600
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