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Detail from painting
Description:
Detail from the bottom left hand side the painting The Southwell Frigate Tradeing on ye Coast of Africa (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock. This detail of the Bristol slave ship shows the ship anchored in the back ground. The ship’s captain stands shaking hands with the African trader who has sold him the enslaved Africans being loaded into a rowing boat.
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:M669
The Calabar Bell
Description:
This bell was a gift from a Bristol slave trader Thomas Jones to his African trading partner Robin John, in Old Calabar (now Nigeria, West Africa). Gifts were exchanged between European and African traders to maintain the sometimes troubled relationship between them.
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
A View of ye Blandford Frigate
Description:
A View of ye Blandford Frigate (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:M670
Bill of lading for cargo of Juba
Description:
Document: Bill of lading for a cargo shipped on the Juba from Old Calabar to West Indies in 1788. The cargo included 115 Males and 115 Females as well as ivory, palm oil and dyewood.
A bill of lading is an official record of goods being carried on a ship.
Date: 1788
Copyright: National Archives
Object ID:CO 107/2
Story of slave uprising and punishment
Description:
Farley Bristol Advertiser 30 March, 1744, story of slave uprising and punishment.
Creator: Farley Bristol Advertiser
Date: 30 March, 1744
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Accounts from a slave ship 1774
Description:
This page from the accounts book of the Bristol slave ship, the Africa, shows the owners’ shares from the first voyage made by the ship in 1774. There were eight owners with equal shares.
Date: 1774
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
The Rivers Severn and Avon
Description:
The Rivers Severn and Avon, detail from A New and Correct Delineation of the Citty of Bristol by James Millerd, 1673. This map shows the route from Bristol out to sea, via the river Severn.
Creator: James Millerd
Date: 1673
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Detail from A View of ye Jason Privateer (left hand side vignette)
Description:
Detail (left hand side vignette) from A View of ye Jason Privateer (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock. Shows enslaved Africans being put into the ship’s boat.
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
Plan of Baptist Mills brass works
Description:
Right hand side of plan of Baptist Mills brass works near Bristol.Founded in 1702 and closed in 1814.
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.
Creator: unknown
Date: 1702 - 1814
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Plan of Baptist Mills brassworks
Description:
Left hand side of plan of Baptist Mills brass works near Bristol. Founded in 1702 and closed in 1814
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.
Creator: unknown
Date: 1702 - 1814
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
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