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Chocolate Wrapper
Description:
Wrapper for Adolphe Lafont Chocolate .
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
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.
With thanks to Cabury/Schweppes for the use of this item.
Creator: JS Fry and Sons
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Chocolate Wrapper
Description:
Chocolate wrapper, for Frys Chocolate Creams.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
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.
With thanks to Cabury/Schweppes for the use of this item.
Creator: JS Fry and Sons
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Chocolate Wrapper
Description:
Chocolate wrapper, Improved Homoeopathic Chocolate, JS Fry and Sons.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
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.
With thanks to Cabury/Schweppes for the use of this item.
Creator: JS Fry and Sons
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Report: other trade with Africa
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 of Sydenham Teaste of Bristol on other trade with Africa.
Sydenham Teaste built a number of ships for the African trade. In 1764 he co-owned the slave ship The Duke of York and in 1786 refitted the slave ship the Hector .
Date: 1789
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Illustration - The Sorrows of Yamba
Description:
Illustration, Sale to Slave Traders , 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
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Trade card
Description:
Trade card, R Osborne, Chainmaker, Old Distillery, near the Iron Bridge, Bedminster
Creator: R Osborne
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Tradecard
Description:
Trade card, for JS Fry and Sons, c1800.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
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.
With thanks to Cabury/Schweppes for the use of this item.
Creator: JS Fry and Sons
Date: c1800
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Trade card
Description:
Reverse side of a trade card of John Mereweather, importer of dried and green fruits. Mereweather was based opposite the Exchange, in Bristol.
Creator: John Mereweather
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Trade card
Description:
Trade card of John Mereweather, importer of dried and green fruits. Mereweather was based opposite the Exchange, in Bristol.
Creator: John Mereweather
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Trade card
Description:
Trade card, Franklyn and McCarthy’s Tobacconist, Castle Street, 1787
Creator: Franklyn and McCarthy
Date: 1787
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:TA 5543
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