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Advert for cargo of stranded ship
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal .
Advert for the auction of some items from the cargo of a stranded ship. The ship was on its way to Waterford, in Ireland. Amongst the cargo was Jamaica rum.
Date: Feb 12th 1785
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Advert for the sale of a ship
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advert for the sale of the ship, the Africa , made for the African trade. To be sold with all her materials and stores, as she was when she last left Africa.
Date: Jan 29th 1785
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Advert for sale of cargo of ship
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for the sale by auction of the cargo from the ship, the Apollo , from St Lucia. Includes sugar and cocoa.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: Jan 29th 1785
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Advert for sale of sugar
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advert for the sale by auction of sugar, from St Kitts in the Caribbean.
Date: May 15th 1784
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Article about hurricane
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Article from the Kingston Journal , reporting on the recent hurricane which struck the island and the damage that it caused.
Date: Oct 16th 1784
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Advert for tea, coffee and chocolate
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advert for tea, coffee and chocolate. Sugar from the Caribbean was used to sweeten bitter drinks of tea, coffee and cocoa. Cocoa was also from the Caribbean and was used to make chocolate.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: April 24th 1784
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Notice to voters
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal .
Notice to invite voters to vote on either Matthew Brickdale or George Daubeny, MPs.
George Daubeny was a major sugar refiner in Bristol.
Date: April 24th 1784
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Article giving news from Antigua
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Article called Plantation News giving news from Antigua in the Caribbean. The article reports of a slave uprising in the Parish of St Johns on the island.
Date: July 8th 1786
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Advert for sale of Jamaica rum
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advert for sale of Jamaica rum.
Date: April 17th 1784
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Advert for turtles for sale
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From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for turtles for sale in large or small quantities . Turtles were often bought over in the ships coming from the Caribbean. It was common for them to be used as ballast for the ships (that is, to even out the weight of the cargo on board).
Date: July 8th, 1786
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