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The Royal Fort
Description:
The Whiteladies Road – the Royal Fort, by Samual Jackson.
Creator: Samual Jackson
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M3435
Map of the country 11 miles round Bristol
Description:
Map of the country 11 miles round Bristol by B Donne, 1804. Some of the houses on the map have links with the slave trade.
Creator: B Donne
Date: 1804
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Blaise Castle House
Description:
Blaise Castle House, 1969. Built by Thomas Farr, investor in slave trade. The Farrs were a family of ropemakers and slave traders.
Creator: Thomas Farr
Date: 1969
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
North West Bristol
Description:
Engraving, Buck’s The North West Prospect of the City of Bristol.
Creator: Buck
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
West Indian Atlas titlepage
Description:
Titlepage from The West Indian Atlas, by Thomas Jefferys, 1775, showing sugar barrels on a Caribbean beach waiting to be loaded onto a ship, probably headed for Europe.
Creator: Thomas Jefferys
Date: 1775
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Detail from Broad Quay
Description:
Detail (young black servant) from Broad Quay, attributed to Philip Vandyke.
Creator: Philip Vandyke
Date: c. 1760
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
The Tobacco Plant (Nicotiana)
Description:
The Tobacco Plant, from Elegancies of Jamaica, by Rev John Lindsay. The tobacco plant was grown on plantations in America and the Caribbean. Many of the enslaved Africans had a knowledge of herbal medicine using African plants, and they found medicinal uses for the plants or the Caribbean. For example, drops of tobacco leaf juice were squeezed into the nose to treat catarrh and head colds.
Creator: Rev Lindsay
Date: 1758 - 1771
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Shackles and chains
Description:
Shackles and chains. On Atlantic crossing, men were shackled together.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Handcuffs and leg shackles
Description:
Illustration of handcuffs and leg shackles, bought in a Liverpool shop. From anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarksons History of the..Abolition of the African Slave Trade, 1807.
Creator: Thomas Clarkson
Date: 1807
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
On the Coast of Africa Tradeing
Description:
Painting detail, (right hand side vignette) On the Coast of Africa Tradeing, from A View of the Blandford Frigate, 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
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