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Notice regarding sale of textiles
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Notice for merchants trading to Africa regarding textile goods to be sold for trade with Africa.
Date: July 1st 1786
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Advert for sale of ship
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advert for the sale of the ship, the Africa .
Date: June 3rd 1786
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Advert for sale of mahogany
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for the sale by auction of mahogany from Jamaica. Mahogany is a hard-wood used for making furniture.
Date: 25th Feb 1786
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Advert for sale of distilleries
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for the sale by auction of malt and molasses distilleries. Molasses was a by-product of the sugar refining process. (Sugar came from the plantations in the Caribbean).
Date: Feb 4th 1786
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Advert for sale of mahogany
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for the sale by auction of mahogany from Honduras and Jamaica. Mahogany is a hard-wood used for making furniture.
Date: Feb 4th 1786
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Advert for tea
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisment for tea imported by the East India Company (a trading company based in London who specialised in trade with the East). Tea was a desirable drink at this time, but was bitter to drink. Plantation grown sugar was used to make tea more drinkable.
Date: Jan 28th, 1786
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Advert for sale of plantations
Description:
From Bonner and Middletons Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for two plantations which are for sale in Jamaica.
Date: Jan 7th 1786
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Fine Shag tobacco
Description:
Wrapper for Ringers Sons’ Fine Shag tobacco.
“Even after the freeing of slaves in America in 1865, many African Americans continued to work on the tobacco and cotton plantations where they had previously worked as slaves.� This, and the attitude to black people generally, was reflected in the continued use of the image of a black man or woman on British tobacco packaging and advertising until about 1960.”
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Creator: Ringers and Sons
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:Bennett Collection
Best Bird’s Eye tobacco
Description:
Wrapper for WD and HO Wills’ Best Bird’s Eye tobacco.
“Even after the freeing of slaves in America in 1865, many African Americans continued to work on the tobacco and cotton plantations where they had previously worked as slaves.� This, and the attitude to black people generally, was reflected in the continued use of the image of a black man or woman on British tobacco packaging and advertising until about 1960.”
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Creator: WD and HO Wills
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:Foster Collection A13/6
Uncut wrappers
Description:
Sheet of uncut wrappers for Imperial Tobacco Company’s tobacco brands.
“Even after the freeing of slaves in America in 1865, many African Americans continued to work on the tobacco and cotton plantations where they had previously worked as slaves.� This, and the attitude to black people generally, was reflected in the continued use of the image of a black man or woman on British tobacco packaging and advertising until about 1960.”
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Creator: Imperial Tobacco Company
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:Bennett Collection
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