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A rotary dryer
Description:
Illustration of a rotary dryer , for drying the cocoa beans, as part of their harvesting and preparation. Taken from Cocoa and Chocolate by A W Knapp.
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: 1920
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 633-74-a4
Preparing harvested cocoa beans
Description:
Photograph of harvested cocoa beans being prepared for fermentation. Taken from Cocoa and Chocolate by A W Knapp.
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: 1920
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Advertisement
Description:
First page of advertisement for The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon Negroes. (The word maroon means escaped slave and comes from a Spanish word meaning mountaineers. The slaves escaped from their plantations to the mountains and formed independant communities of free people.)
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 326-1-04
Tools for picking cocoa pods from trees
Description:
Illustration of tools used for picking cocoa pods from trees. Taken from Cocoa and Chocolate by A W Knapp.
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: 1920
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 633-74-a1
Leonard Parkinson
Description:
A picture of Leonard Parkinson, Captain of the Maroons, taken from The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon Negroes. (The word maroon means escaped slave and comes from a Spanish word meaning mountaineers. The slaves escaped from their plantations to the mountains and formed independant communities of free people.)
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: 1837
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 326-1-02
Table of ex-slaves food allowances
Description:
Extract from Tracts on Slavery, The Foreign Slave Trade , 1837. A table showing the regulation on food allowances to ex-slaves under the Abolition law (which ended the trade in slaves). Order in Council, 5th June 1834.
Date: 1837
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 326-1-01
Newspaper extract, sailing of ship
Description:
Newspaper extract from The Cornwall Chronicle, Jamaica. Advertisement for imminent sailing of the ship Foord to Bristol.
Date: 22 Dec 1781
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Newspaper extract, sailing of ship
Description:
Newspaper extract from The Cornwall Chronicle, Jamaica. Advert for the imminent sailing of the ship Lord North to Bristol.
Date: 22 Dec 1781
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Newspaper extract, 620 slaves for sale
Description:
Newspaper extract from The Cornwall Chronicle, Jamaica . Advert for 620 slaves for sale from Bonny, West Africa, shipped on board the ship, Jane .
Date: 15 Dec 1781
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Newspaper extract, 450 slaves for sale
Description:
Newspaper extract from The Cornwall Chronicle, Jamaica. Advert for 450 slaves for sale on board the Lord Germaine ship.
Date: 15 Dec 1781
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
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