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Letter re mill and Smyth family debts

Letter re mill and Smyth family debts

Description:

Letter regarding the mill not working and a large balance owed to the agent by the Smyth family, owners of the Spring Plantation in Jamaica.

Date: 1800

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Object ID:AC/WO/16(27)177a

Letter re mill and Smyth family debts

Detail from letter re mill and Smyth family debts

Description:

Detail of letter from the agents Hibbert and Taylor, regarding the mill not working and a large balance owed to them, by the Smyth family, owners of the Spring Plantation in Jamaica.

Date: 1800

Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office

Object ID:AC/WO/16(27)177a

Detail of letter re slave rebellion

Detail of letter re slave rebellion

Description:

Detail of letter from Jamaica regarding the slave rebellion, 1760.
The detail shows that the letter is addressed to Samuel Munckley.

Date: 1760

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Object ID:AC/MU1/11(h)

Account of plantation

Account of plantation

Description:

Account of plantation with agents, from the Spring Plantation in Jamaica.

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Object ID:AC/WO/16(27)164

Detail, assignment of slaves

Detail, assignment of slaves

Description:

Detail, assignment of slaves.

Document showing the sale of slaves and their descendants in Georgia, 1805.

Date: c1805

Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office

Object ID:8032/49

Detail of bill of slaves

Detail of bill of slaves

Description:

Detail of bill for sale of four slaves in South Carolina, for $1,390, in 1812. Purchased by T C Vanderhorst (who owned a plantation in the Americas and had Bristol links), from Thomas Greyson.

Date: 1810 - 1812

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:8032/52

Assignment of slaves

Assignment of slaves

Description:

Assignment of slaves in Georgia.

Document showing the sale of slaves and their descendants in Georgia, 1805.

Date: c1805

Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office

Object ID:8032/49

Report: How slaves were force-fed

Report: How slaves were force-fed

Description:

Lords Committee of Council reports, 1789.

The Lords Committee of Council was a Parliamentary Committee.
The title of the reports reads: Report of the Lords Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters concerning the present state of the Trade to Africa and particularly the Trade in Slaves …

Evidence given to the committee by James Arnold from Bristol, about the force feeding of slaves who refused to eat.

Date: 1789

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:08527

Extract about escaped slave Ellen Craft

Extract about escaped slave Ellen Craft

Description:

Extract from the extract book of poet Mary Carpenter,1836. The extract refers to Ellen Craft, a famous slave who escaped from her owner by dressing as a white man, 1848, December 26th – Georgia.

Ellen Craft impersonated a slave holder. Her husband, William Craft, acted as her servant

Date: 1836

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Object ID:12693(20)

Insurance policy

Insurance policy

Description:

Insurance policy for the ship, The Sally , 1762.

Date: 1762

Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office

Object ID:16073

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