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Bill of lading for trade goods
Description:
Bill of lading for trade goods shipped by Noblett Ruddock on the ship the Cornwall Gally from Bristol to Africa, 1719. Ruddock was a merchant of Bristol with many trading interests. He invested in the trading of slaves and dealt in slave-produced goods such as sugar and tobacco.
A bill of lading is an official record of goods being carried on a ship.
Date: 1719
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Photo of neck-ring
Description:
Neckring, photo
Date: unknown
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Gold dust weights, Asante people
Description:
Weights for gold dust in shape of soldier and captive, from Asante people of Ghana
Creator: Asante
Date: Asante
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Ea 9344, 9346
Bust of Edward Colston
Description:
Bust of Edward Colston by Michael Rysbrack (c. 1726). Colston (1636-1721) was a Bristol merchant who was involved in the transatlantic slave trade as an official of the London-based Royal African Company (a trading company that specialised in the trade with Africa).
Creator: Rysbrack
Date: c. 1726
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K 4753
Fire insurance plaque
Description:
Fire insurance plaque, number 2112 of a Bristol company.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:TA 498
Advert, two sugar houses
Description:
Advertisement from Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, two sugar-houses for sale, 13th March 1762
Creator: Felix Farley's Bristol Journal
Date: 13th March 1762
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Bank note
Description:
Bristol Bank note for £30, unissued
Creator: Bristol Bank
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:O. 3920
Advert, a boy for sale
Description:
Advertisement from Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal. The advert reads: To be Sold, A Negroe Boy, about ten Years old, He has had the Small-Pox.
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.
Creator: Felix Farley's Bristol Journal
Date: 2nd August 1760
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Advert for runaway slave called Mingo
Description:
Advertisement, for a runaway slave called Mingo. Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal.
Creator: Felix Farley's Bristol Journal
Date: 15th November 1746
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Theatre token (back)
Description:
Back of token for King Street, Bristol Theatre (now the Bristol Old Vic theatre). The token reads The Proprietor of this Ticket is Entitled to the Sight of Every Performance to be Exhibited in this House.
Date: 30th May 1766
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
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