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Page 6 from poem against slavery
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Page 6 from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade by Anne Yearsley.Yearsley was a famous poet from Bristol. Amongst her writings were poems against Bristols trade in slaves.
Creator: Anne Yearsley
Date: 1788
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS SR21
Page 1 from poem against slavery
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Page 1 from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade by Anne Yearsley.Yearsley was a famous poet from Bristol. Amongst her writings were poems against Bristols trade in slaves.
Creator: Anne Yearsley
Date: 1788
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS SR21
Letter from Anne Yearsley re slavery
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Letter re slave trade from Anne Yearsley to the Right Hon and Right Rev Frederick; Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry.
Anne Yearsley was a campaigner against the slave trade and a famous Bristol poet. Amongst her writings were poems against Bristols trade in slaves.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS SR21
Frontispiece to poem against slavery
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Frontispiece to A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade by Anne Yearsley.Yearsley was a famous poet from Bristol. Amongst her writings were poems against Bristols trade in slaves.
Creator: Anne Yearsley
Date: 1788
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS SR21
Illustration - The Sorrows of Yamba
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Illustration, Landed in St Lucia and Sold , from The Sorows of Yamba, or the Negro Womans Lamentation, by Hannah More.This was a poem or song about a slave on St Lucia longing for her homeland.
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.
Creator: Hannah More
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS BL3E1-B10256
Illustration - The Sorrows of Yamba
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Illustration, Baptised , from The Sorows of Yamba, or the Negro Womans Lamentation, by Hannah More.This was a poem or song about a slave on St Lucia longing for her homeland.
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.
Creator: Hannah More
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS BL3E1-B10256
Illustration - The Sorrows of Yamba
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Illustration, Onboard Ship , from The Sorows of Yamba, or the Negro Womans Lamentation, by Hannah More.This was a poem or song about a slave on St Lucia longing for her homeland.
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.
Creator: Hannah More
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS BL3E1-B10256
Frontspiece - The Sorrows of Yamba
Description:
Frontispiece from The Sorows of Yamba, or the Negro Womans Lamentation, by Hannah More.This was a poem or song about a slave on St Lucia longing for her homeland. Hannah More was an influential Bristolian, who wrote poems against the slave trade.
Creator: Hannah More
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Frontspiece - The Black Prince
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Frontispiece to The Black Prince, a true story of an account of the life and death of Naimbanna, an African kings son. He was sent to England in 1791, at the age of 23 by his father, to be educated. He set sail on his return in June 1793, and died on the journey after his fathers death.
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Object ID:BLS BL3E1-B17624
Newspaper extract about play
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Newspaper accounts of slave revolt story, in Felix Farley’s Bristol News 20 November 1725.
This account is about the Nevis (plantation, Caribbean) uprising 3 Sept 1726, regarding play of Ornoonoko at St Augustine’s Back, Bristol.
Date: 3rd Sept 1726
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