Description:

The African Slave Trade of Bristol. Letters to Isaac Hobhouse and partners. Slave Estates (Jefferies collection).
Hobshouse was a merchant behind slave voyages and owned ships.

Extract from the Cornish Chronicle, Jamaica, May 22nd 1785.
Advertisement for a cargo from Bristol in 1784. The cargo contained anchovies and capers, Taunton ale, Gloucester cheese, Backgammon tables, tea, perfumery and toys, etc.

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