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Items owned by Royal African Company

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

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

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

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

Report in scrapbook

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

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

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

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

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

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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