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The Island of Nevis
Description:
The Island of Nevis, with Pinney’s plantation, Mountravers (centre) above Pinney’s Beach. John Pinney owned plantations on the Caribbean island of Nevis.
With thanks to David Small and Christine Eickelmann for the use of this image.
Date: unknown
Copyright: David Small and Christine Eickelmann
A View of Nevis from St Kitts
Description:
A View of Nevis from St Kitts, by Nicholas Pocock. John Pinney commissioned this painting of his plantation. John Pinney owned plantations on the Caribbean island of Nevis
Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.
Creator: Nicholas Pocock
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K5532
Bill of lading for sugar
Description:
A bill of lading for a cargo of sugar from the Caribbean island of Jamaica for Bristol, from the agent Swymmer to Woolnough. Rebecca Woolnough part-owned the Spring Plantation in Jamaica.
A bill of lading is an official record of goods being carried on a ship.
Creator: Swymmer
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Plantation at York River in Virginia
Description:
Picture on a tobacco wrapper of a plantation at York River in Virginia, in America. African slaves are overseen at work in the fields by the white plantation owner who is smoking a pipe.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Creator: Joseph Haynes
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Accounts from a slave ship 1776
Description:
Page from the accounts book of the Bristol slave ship the Africa. It shows the owner’s shares made on the ship’s second voyage in 1776. There were seven owners with eight shares.
Date: 1776
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Report: ways used to capture slaves
Description:
Lords Committee of Council reports, 1789.
The Lords Committee of Council was a Parliamentary Committee.
The title of the reports reads: Report of the Lords Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters concerning the present state of the Trade to Africa and particularly the Trade in Slaves…
Evidence of Mr James Arnold of Bristol, surgeon on slaving voyages, about the ways used to capture slaves.
Date: 1789
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Cosmetic pot
Description:
Cosmetic pot from the Asante people of Ghana.
Creator: Asante
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Ea 9128
Blunderbus Pistol
Description:
Blunderbus pistol, described as a trade pistol.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Fort St Sebastian, West Africa
Description:
Fort St Sebastian (Shama), Ghana, West Africa. This photograph of a trading fort in Ghana was taken in the 1950s. Forts such as this one were built around the 18th century by Europeans who used them as bases for trading. In particular, they were used for temporarily housing enslaved Africans until they could be loaded onto the waiting ships anchored nearby.
Date: c. 1950
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Dixcove trading fort, West Africa
Description:
Dixcove Trading Fort, (Kormantin), near Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa. This photograph of a trading fort in Ghana was taken in the 1950s. Forts such as this one were built around the 18th century by Europeans who used them as bases for trading. In particular, they were used for temporarily housing enslaved Africans until they could be loaded onto the waiting ships anchored nearby.
Date: c. 1950
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
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