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A gang of cocoa pickers
Description:
A gang of cocoa picking workers on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1864.
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: 1894
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 633-74-c1
Reverse of bill of lading: cloth etc
Description:
Reverse of bill of lading for Indian and English cloth and other items, shipped by Noblett Ruddock on the ship the Raymond Gally from Bristol to Africa, 1719.
The items listed include: …basts, brawles, nicannces, tapseils, phoates, congees, romalls (type of cloth), annabasses/capes(?), King cloaths, paper sletias (linen), Chintz blew and white (cloth), English Chintz (cloth), long cloaths, musketts (guns), beads, pewter, brass pans, cutlasses, gunpowder, pistols, brandy, Earthenware, knives, looking glasses, tobacco pipes …
Ruddock was a merchant of Bristol with many trading interests. He invested in the trading of slaves and dealt in slave-produced goods such as sugar and tobacco.
A bill of lading is an official record of goods being carried on a ship.
Date: 1719
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Contract
Description:
Contract regarding the sale of slaves to Thomas Vanderholst, 1812, in Carolina, USA.
Date: 1812
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:8032 (52)
List
Description:
List of supplies wanted by the Spring Plantaion estate, from Mr. Hall, 1789.
Date: 1789
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (43) h (ii)
Letter re mill and Smyth family debts
Description:
Letter regarding the mill not working and a large balance owed to the agent by the Smyth family, owners of the Spring Plantation in Jamaica.
Date: 1800
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Letter
Description:
Letter regarding the manumission (freeing) of slaves, Spring Plantation, Jamaica.
Date: 1798
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (172) a
List
Description:
Front of list of slaves with a value of £24,888, on Spring Plantation, Jamaica.
Date: 1795
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (27) 166 (d)
Letter
Description:
Letter from agents regarding the buying of slaves, to the owners of the Spring Plantation, Jamaica.
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Object ID:AC/WO 16 (27) 161
Sugar sales
Description:
An account of sugar sales from the Spring Plantation, Jamaica, 1763.
Date: 1763
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (50) bii
Sugar sales
Description:
Account of sugar sales from the Spring Plantation, Jamaica, 1770.
Date: 1770
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (50) hiii
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