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Recipe to reverse effects of poison
Description:
Bristol Weekly Intelligencier, 3rd March 1750, story of recipe for antidote to slave poison and recipe itself.
Creator: Bristol Weekly Intelligencier
Date: 3rd March 1750
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Leonard Parkinson
Description:
Leonard Parkinson, Captain of the Maroons by H Smith. Parkinson was one of the leaders of the Jamaican Maroons, who maintained their freedom and independence against British troops for 100 years. (The word maroon means escaped slave and comes from a Spanish word meaning mountaineers. The slaves escaped from their plantations to the mountains and formed independant communities of free people.)
Creator: H Smith
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Mb 6431
Banner against apprenticeship
Description:
Banner for the campaign against apprenticeship, Anti-Slavery International.
With thanks to Anti-Slavery International for the use of this item.
Slavery still exists today and Anti-Slavery International are campaiging against it.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Anti-Slavery International
Page 8 from log book of ship Africa
Description:
Page 8 from the log book of the ship The Africa.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Letter from Barker re pension
Description:
Letter from Robert Barker to the Society of Merchant Venturers asking for his pension back (the Society administered the Seamean’s Hospital Fund). Barker was carpenter on the Thetis. He went blind on a slaving voyage to Africa. His pension from the Fund was stopped after he published a pamphlet accusing Captain Wapshutt of the Thetis of murder and cruelty. The Trustees of the Fund supported Wapshutt. Barker made several efforts to get his pension back but was always rejected.
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: 18th October 1763
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Object ID:50a
Detail of muster roll no. 68
Description:
Ships muster rolls from 1770 – 1771; Society of Merchant Venturers archive.
Muster roll no: 68.
Detail of muster roll for the ship, the Gambia, sailing from Africa and Barbados in the Caribbean, 1769.
Joseph Banfield was on board the Gambia on a slaving voyage in 1769. He 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: 1769
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Meeting opposing slave trade abolition
Description:
Minutes of a meeting held at the Merchants’ Hall, Bristol, 13th April 1789.
Record of a meeting held to consider the steps to be taken to oppose the threat of the abolition of the slave trade. A committee was set up to liase with the Society of Merchant Venturers and the Committee of London Merchants, to prepare petitions, encouraging all merchants to support them and to ask for support from MPs.
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: 13th April 1789
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Satirical handbill
Description:
Satirical handbill, Valuable Articles of the Slave Trade. Abolitionists placed spoof advertisements.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Directory extract, ship workers, export surveyor
Description:
Matthew’s Bristol Directory, James Jones landing waiter, James Johnson, ship-rigger, William Jerrard, excise export surveyor.
Creator: William Matthews
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Advert for coffee and sugar house sales
Description:
Advertisement from Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, for the sale of the West India Coffee House and the sale of a sugar house.
Creator: West India Coffee House
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
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