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Advert for sale, healthy young slave man
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser , Jamaica.
Advert for sale of healthy young slave man. Also, two mules and a quantity of corn.
Date: Thurs July 30 1795
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Advert for sale of 410 slaves
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser, Jamaica.
Advert for sale of 410 prime, young Congo Negroes, imported in the ship, the Lion of Bristol ; Captain; John Smith. For sale by Ballantine, Fairlie and Company.
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: Mon Dec 14th, 1795
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Advert for cider and beer imported
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser, Jamaica.
Advert for cider and beer imported into the Orange Valley plantation, Jamaica, from Bristol.
Date: Mon Dec 7 1795
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Advert for dried cod
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser , Jamaica.
Advert for dried cod, sold as food provisions for slaves.
Date: Thurs Dec 10 1795
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Offer of reward advertised in newspaper
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser , Jamaica.
Proclamation to Maroons, who were in rebellion, by Major-General Balcarres, offering a bounty of £20 for every Maroon man captured.
£50 offered for Leonard Parkinson, and £100 for James Palmer, leaders of the rebellion.
(The word maroon means escaped slave and comes from a Spanish word meaning mountaineers. The slaves escaped from their plantations to the mountains and formed independant communities of free people.)
Date: Mon Dec 7 1795
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Advert for sale of plantations
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser , Jamaica.
Advert for sale of Wilkins and Spring Hill plantations.
Date: Wed June 17 1795
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Goods just imported in Britannia
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The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser , Jamaica.
Advert for goods just imported in the ship Britannia from Bristol. Cider, cloth, tobacco pipes, hoes, linseed oil, green paint, etc.
Date: Thurs June 11 1795
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Values of goods imported
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A table showing values of goods imported from the Caribbean into Britain,1698-1790.(For an idea of how much these values would be in today’s money, multiply the figures by 5).From Bryan Edwards, The History…of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Volume II,1793.
Creator: Bryan Edwards
Date: 1793
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Imports from the Caribbean to Britain
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A table showing the imports from the Caribbean islands in 1788 to Britain. It includes goods such as sugar, coffee, rum and ginger.From Bryan Edwards, The History…of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Volume II,1793.
Creator: Bryan Edwards
Date: 1793
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Agreement
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Agreement between John Pinney and John Smith. Smith is recorded in the agreement as being the new overseer and distiller on Pinney’s plantation on the Caribbean island of Nevis.At the end of the agreement are both mens’ signatures and their wax seals.
John Pinney was a plantation owner and sugar agent who lived in Bristol.
Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.
Date: 1783-94
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
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