![Georgian House, Bristol](/images/sized/images/uploads/slavery/Georgian_House-0x130.jpg)
Learning Journeys
Click your way through some short stories and pictures that reveal more about what life was like during this time.
![The Citty of Bristoll](/images/sized/images/uploads/slavery/The_Citty_of_Bristoll-160x0.jpg)
How Slavery Developed
From the 11th century ships from Bristol had been involved in transporting children to sell as slaves in Ireland.
![John Pinney](/images/sized/images/uploads/slavery/John_Pinney-0x160.jpg)
John Pinney
There were many people in Bristol who benefitted from the ‘Africa Trade’. A sea captain filling his ship with slaves to transport across the Atlantic Ocean was paid for his work.
![Georgian House, Bristol](/images/sized/images/uploads/slavery/Georgian_House-0x160.jpg)
The Georgian House
The Georgian House at 7 Great George Street, Bristol, is today furnished as a period townhouse. It shows what life was like for a wealthy business man towards the end of the Georgian period (1714-1830). T
![Nevis with Pinneys Plantation Mountravers](/images/sized/images/uploads/slavery/The_Island_of_Nevis-160x0.jpg)
The Island of Nevis
The island of Nevis is just one of the many islands in the Caribbean that proved useful to Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries.