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Compensation table for Caribbean islands
Description:
Intercolonial Appointment. A table showing the number, value and average compensation for all the Caribbean islands.
The Abolition, or end, of slavery happened in 1834.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
List of Nevis compensation claims
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier . Mar 20th 1835.
List of compensation claims for Nevis.
The Abolition, or end, of slavery happened in 1834.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Date: Mar 20 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Notice; counter claims forms
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier. Mar 20th 1835.
Notice from The Office of the Auxiliary Commissioners of Compensation, that counter claim forms for compensation will be issued until 1st May 1835(?).
The Abolition, or end, of slavery happened in 1834.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Date: Mar 20 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Advert for sale of apprenticed servant
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier. Mar 20th 1835.
Advertisement for the sale of the services of an apprenticed (ex-slave) servant whose employer was about to leave the island of St Christopher, in the Caribbean.
Date: Mar 20 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Ex-slave apprenticeship discharge notice
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier. Mar 20th 1835.
Public notice regarding Moll, an apprentice (ex-slave) applying for discharge from her apprenticeship.
Date: Mar 20 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Advert for sailing of the Kara
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier. Feb 20 1835.
Advert for the sailing of the brig (two-masted ship), the Kara; for Bristol on 1st March (no year).
Date: Feb 20 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Extra slave compensation certificates
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier. Feb 20 1835.
Notice from the Registrar of Slaves, announcing the issue of duplicate compensation certificates, if needed.
The Abolition, or end, of slavery happened in 1834.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Date: Feb 20th, 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Notice; where and when claims received
Description:
St Christopher Gazette and Caribbean Courier. Feb 20 1835.
Notice of the Office of the Assistant Commissioners of Compensation regarding claims for compensation being paid to slave owners.
The Abolition, or end, of slavery happened in 1834.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Date: Feb 20 1835
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Compensation claims for freed slaves
Description:
Pinney papers.
List of slaves on various estates in Nevis, for compensation claims at Emancipation (end of slavery),
in 1834. Lists slaves by trade (head people, tradesmen, field labourers, inferior labourers etc) and their value for the owner’s compensation.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Date: 1834(?)
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Object ID:R-6
Letter advising captain to move ship on
Description:
Papers of the Duncomb family. Taken from copies of letters from David Duncombe(?) in Bristol, 1767, to the captains of the ships, the Cornwall and the Juba, advising on trade etc.
First letter.
Addressed to captain in Dominica, advising him to go on to Virginia unless he can get a very good price in Antigua. Includes a note on the outset costs of the Cornwall’s voyage (£2006 16s 9d exclusive of the ship).
(The total price of the cargo and the ship was £5746 10s 9d).
Date: 1767
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Object ID:DM 1061
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