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Account of enslavement

Account of former slave

Description:

An account of an enslaved African called Catsan of how he was enslaved, as told to a young boy in England. The family of the boy owned a plantation in Jamaica. Catsan had been taken to Guadaloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. He was then taken to France. Returning to Guadaloupe, he was shipwrecked off the English coast and earned a living as best he could.When he went blind, local people suported him with a cottage and some money to live on.

Page 19, taken from Memoirs of a West India Planter , by Rev john Riland, published by Hamittinb, Adams and Co. London, 1838.

Date: 1838

Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service

Object ID:BLS 326-9279-19

Account of enslavement

Account of former slave

Description:

An account of an enslaved African called Catsan of how he was enslaved, as told to a young boy in England. The family of the boy owned a plantation in Jamaica. Catsan had been taken to Guadaloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. He was then taken to France. Returning to Guadaloupe, he was shipwrecked off the English coast and earned a living as best he could.When he went blind, local people suported him with a cottage and some money to live on.

Page 18, taken from Memoirs of a West India Planter , by Rev john Riland, published by Hamittinb, Adams and Co. London, 1838.

Date: 1838

Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service

Object ID:BLS 326-9279-18

Table of costs for an estate on Barbados

Table of costs for an estate on Barbados

Description:

Table of costs for an estate on the island of Barbados, 1822, showing output of sugar, input of labour and costs of slave labour.

Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture, page 327. By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.

Date: 1822

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Object ID:BLS 633-61-9b

Snuff box from West Africa

Snuff box

Description:

Snuff box from West Africa.

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Gun

British gun adapted by West African owner

Description:

British flintlock gun made by Thomas Barnett of London, who made trade guns, flintlock muskets and rifles. This gun has a proof mark, which is an official stamp to say that the barrel had passed a saftey test.Gun makers were known to dump their seconds on the export market and there is anecdotal information about guns exploding when used. The gun has been adapted, or customised,by its West African owner and decorated with cloth, leather fringe, cowrie shells, brass bands, beads and seed pods.

Creator: Barnett of London

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Object ID:1992/011/004

Mask

Mask of Sande Society from Mende people

Description:

Wooden mask of the Sande Society from the Mende people of Sierra Leone. The Sande mask is the only mask worn by women in Africa. Most societies are for men and their masks are all worn by men. This mask represents the ideal of feminine beauty for the Mende people.

Date: 20th century

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Carved ivory

Carved tusk

Description:

Elephant’s tusk with carved decoration, from Nigeria, West Africa.

Date: unknown

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Object ID:2000/084/718

Carved wooden stool

Stool

Description:

Carved wooden stool, made by the Asante people, Ghana. A stool is often given as a gift to mark important stages in a person’s life, such as marriage.

Creator: Asante

Date: unknown

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Object ID:T/GHAN/205

Ivory tapper

Carved ivory stick

Description:

Carved ivory stick used for divination.Made by the Yoruba people, Nigeria.

Creator: Yoruba

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Object ID:T/NIGE/719

Pipe

Pipe for smoking tobacco

Description:

Clay pipe for smoking tobacco, from Jamaica in the Caribbean.

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Object ID:T/JAMA/40

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