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The Burning of the Bishops Palace
Description:
_The Burning of the Bishops Palace, Bristol (c. 1831) _ by W J Muller
Creator: W J Muller
Date: 1831
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M4122
Uncle Tom and Eva
Description:
Figurine of Uncle Tom and Eva. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an emotional account of slavery, from a slave’s point of view, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1850.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
The Rev Thomas Roberts
Description:
The Rev Thomas Roberts, by James Curnock (c.1840). Rev Roberts was a pastor, from 1807, of the Baptist churches in Pithay and then and then in King Street. He was active in the anti-slavery movement as symbolised by the chains in the portrait. His obituary spoke of his extraordinary efforts towards the emancipation of slaves and extinction of slavery in all parts of the world. (Emancipation means end on slavery). After Britain abolished slavery, he continued to campaign against slavery in the USA, South America and India.
Creator: James Curnock
Date: c. 1840
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K5889
Letter concerning a slave
Description:
Letter dated 2nd November, 1819, from Mr. A. Fashe regarding the freeing of his sister’s slave, Mary Ellis, from the Lodge Estate on the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
Creator: A Fashe
Date: 2nd November 1819
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Medallion commemorating Abolition
Description:
Medallion commemorating Abolition (the end of the slave trade). This side of the medallion has a slave bathed in light breaking free from chains and reads Liberty proclaimed to the Captives.
Date: 1st August 1834
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:0.4266
Commemorative medallion
Description:
Commemorative medallion for the abolition of the slave trade, 1807. Abolition was marked by the issue of several medallions. This one shows an African and a European shaking hands.
Date: 1807
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:O. 1620
Advert placed by bookseller
Description:
Advertisement: Debates of the House of Commons on the Slave Trade, Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 1792. The bookseller S Sellick is advertising a published account of a debate in the House of Commons on the slave trade, in which leading Abolitionist campaigner, William Wilberforce, describes the brutality of the trade. He referred in particular to a Bristol ship’s captain called John Kimber. Kimber ordered that a young female slave be whipped because she was unwell and could not eat. The girl died from her injuries five days later.
Creator: Felix Farley's Bristol Journal
Date: 1792
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
John Pinney
Description:
Portrait of John Pinney, signed Maynard (c. 1765). John Pinney was a wealthy sugar merchant and plantation owner who lived at 7, Great George Street, Bristol, which is now a museum called the Georgian House.
Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.
Creator: Maynard
Date: c. 1765
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Anti-Abolition meeting minutes
Description:
Anti-Abolition meeting minutes printed for circulation for meeting held at London Tavern, London 9th April, 1789. Circulated to alert people to the threat of Abolition and to urge merchants, etc, to give evidence to the proposed House of Commons Select Committee.
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: 9th April, 1789
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Charles Pinney
Description:
Charles Pinney, attributed to Maynard (no first name as exact identity unsure). Charles Pinney became Lord Mayor of Bristol in 1831. He was the son of John Pinney, a wealthy plantation owner and sugar merchant.
Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.
Creator: Maynard
Date: unknown
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
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