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Items owned by Royal African Company
Description:
The British trading company, the Royal African Company , traded with Africa via their trading ports on the west coast of Africa. This table gives an account of that owned by the company. It includes slaves, as well as military stores and canoes. From the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce translated from Monsieur Savary by M Postlethwayt. Volume 1.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Tobacco; annual import, export, losses
Description:
Extract from entry regarding tobacco, remarking on its annual import and export and the losses made to fraudulant activity. From the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce translated from Monsieur Savary by M Postlethwayt. Volume 2.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
How sugar is drawn from the canes
Description:
Extract from entry about sugar, explaining how sugar is drawn from the canes. From the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce translated from Monsieur Savary by M Postlethwayt. Volume 2.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
British plantation tobacco law
Description:
Extract from entry regarding tobacco. The extract details one of the laws relating to tobacco from British plantations. From the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce translated from Monsieur Savary by M Postlethwayt. Volume 2.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Report of a meeting
Description:
Report of a meeting of women to consider whether they should address women in America on behalf of women from Britain and Ireland on the subject of slavery.
Report is inside a scrapbook compiled by Anna-Maria Pinney, most probably related to John Pinney, a wealthy plantation owner and sugar merchant from Bristol. Started 1852.
Date: Started 1852
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Map of Jamaica
Description:
Map of Jamaica. From an Atlas, by J Danckerts, c 1690.
With thanks to the Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland, who own this item.
Date: c 1690
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Map of Martinique
Description:
Map of the Caribbean island of Martinique. From an Atlas, by J Danckerts, c 1690.
With thanks to the Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland, who own this item.
Date: c 1690
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Map of Africa
Description:
Map of Africa. From an Atlas, by J Danckerts, c 1690.
With thanks to the Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland, who own this item.
Date: c 1690
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Map of Britain
Description:
Map of Britain. From an Atlas, by J Danckerts, c 1690.
With thanks to the Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland, who own this item.
Date: c 1690
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Diagrams of early navigation devices
Description:
Diagrams of devices used in early navigation. The captains of slave ships would have used items such as these to help them sail to Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean. From the Universal Dictionary of Arts and Science by E Chambers, 1787.
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
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