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Slavery: an essay in verse (extract)
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Extract from Tracts on Slavery, The Foreign Slave Trade , 1837. Extract from Slavery: an essay in verse by Captain Marjoribanks.
Date: 1837
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List of donors and subscribers
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Extract from Tracts on Slavery, The Foreign Slave Trade , 1837. List of donors and subscribers to the Bristol Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Society.
Date: 1837
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List of life members
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Extract from Tracts on Slavery, The Foreign Slave Trade , 1837. List of life members of the Bristol Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Society.
Date: 1837
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Anti-slavery meeting opening page
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Extract from Tracts on Slavery, The Foreign Slave Trade , 1837. Opening page of the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery meeting held at the Guildhall, Bristol,1826.
Date: 1837
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Poem called The Negro’s Complaint
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Extract from Tracts on Slavery, The Foreign Slave Trade , 1837. A poem called The Negro’s Complaint by Cowper. An anti-slavery poem published during the proceedings of an anti-slavery meeting held in Bristol, 1826.
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: 1800s
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Group of ex-slaves
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Photograph of a group of ex-slaves, Jamaica.
Taken from Black Jamacia by W P Livingstone, 1899.
Date: 1899
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The History of the Jamaica Case
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The History of the Jamaica Case by W F Finlason, 1869.
An account of the slave rebellions in Jamaica, what caused it and how it was suppressed.
Date: 1869
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Properties burned during slave rebellion
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Table showing the parish of St James in Cornwall, Jamaica. It lists the properties in the parish that were burned in the destruction of property by slaves during rebellion in 1831.
Taken from Jamaica by a retired military officer.
Date: 1835
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Interview between Gardiner and Mcneal
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Title page illustration of Jamaica by a retired military officer. The illustration shows an Interview between Gardiner (the Rebel Chief) and Lieut McNeal at the entrance of a wood .
Date: 1835
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Bagging cocoa beans
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Workers bagging cocoa beans for shipment, Trinidad. Taken from Cocoa and Chocolate by A W Knapp.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: 1920
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Object ID:BLS 633-74-a5
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