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Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 149.
Muster roll for the ship, the Emilia , sailing from Africa, 1787.
The Emilia sailed for Bonny in West Africa with orders to buy 450 slaves. It is not known how many were bought and sold at St Thomas or St Kitts, in the Caribbean.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 163.
Muster roll for the ship, the Thomas , sailing from Africa, 1787.
The Thomas sailed for New Calabar and bought 409 enslaved Africans. 400 or 402 were sold at St Vincent. It seems that the ship could not get a cargo for the return voyage to Bristol.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 150.
Muster roll for the ship, the Daniel , sailing from Africa, 1787.
The Daniel sailed for Bonny in West Africa, with orders to buy 150 slaves. It is not known how many were bought and sold at Tortola, off the Caribbean island of Nevis.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 122.
Muster roll for the ship, the Lion , sailing from Africa, 1786.
The Lion was owned by Sidenham Teast and Company, shipbuilders, and returned direct to Bristol from Africa presumably with a cargo of tropical hardwoods for shipbuilding.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1786
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 138.
Muster roll for the ship, the King George , sailing from Bristol to Africa and Jamaica, 1787.
The master of the ship had orders to buy 450 slaves. The number he did actually buy is not known, but reports suggest that 410 or 315 were sold at Jamaica.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 111.
Muster roll for the ship, the Royal Charlotte , sailing from Africa and the Caribbean island of Grenada, 1787.
The Royal Charlotte sailed for West Africa, with orders to buy 450 slaves. How many were actually bought is not known, but 417 were imported into Grenada.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 67.
Muster roll for the ship, the Britannia , sailing from Barbados, 1787.
The Britannia was one of many ships supplying the colonies with manufactured goods and foodstuffs. It was government policy that the colonies should be a market for British-made goods and supply raw materials to British industry.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Slavery exhibition comment card 2001-04
Description:
Comment by a visitor to the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery exhibition, A Respectable Trade? Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery.
Partly because many comments from the 1999 exhibition said ‘This exhibition should be permanent’, the exhibition was revised and installed as a permanent gallery in the Bristol Industrial Museum. Comment cards fromt he new display reflect similar themes to those from the original, with anti-racism, sorrow and respect recurring frequently.
Date: 2001-2004
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Slavery exhibition comment card 2001-04
Description:
Comment by a visitor to the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery exhibition, A Respectable Trade? Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery.
Partly because many comments from the 1999 exhibition said ‘This exhibition should be permanent’, the exhibition was revised and installed as a permanent gallery in the Bristol Industrial Museum. Comment cards fromt he new display reflect similar themes to those from the original, with anti-racism, sorrow and respect recurring frequently.
Date: 2001-2004
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Slavery exhibition comment card 2001-04
Description:
Comment by a visitor to the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery exhibition, A Respectable Trade? Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery.
Partly because many comments from the 1999 exhibition said ‘This exhibition should be permanent’, the exhibition was revised and installed as a permanent gallery in the Bristol Industrial Museum. Comment cards fromt he new display reflect similar themes to those from the original, with anti-racism, sorrow and respect recurring frequently.
Date: 2001-2004
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
