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Letter re sales of sugar
Description:
Letter, from Nat Swymmer to Rebeccah Woolnough re sales of sugar, 1757. Rebecca Woolnough part-owned the Spring Plantation
Creator: Nat Swymmer
Date: 1757
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (27) 22(a)
List of slaves on Spring Plantation
Description:
List of slaves on Spring Plantation 1762
Creator: Spring Plantation
Date: 1762
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
List of slaves on Spring Plantation
Description:
List of slaves on Spring Plantation 1762
Creator: Spring Plantation
Date: 1762
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Insurance policy
Description:
Insurance policy for the ship, The Sally , 1762.
Date: 1762
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:16073
Inventory, Edmund Saunders
Description:
Inventory of merchant and sea captain, Edmund Saunders, 1740.
Creator: Edmund Saunders
Date: 1740
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/JS62/20
Subscribers to Quakers
Description:
Subscribers to Quaker Meeting House
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:SF/A12/1
Subscribers to the Theatre Royal
Description:
List of people from Bristol who gave money in support of the new Theatre Royal in 1766.
Date: 1766
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:8978/1(a)
Will of Becher Fleming
Description:
Will of Becher Fleming, a Bristol merchant who invested in slave ships, 1718.
Creator: Becher Fleming
Date: 1718
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:WILL: BECHER FLEMING, 1718
Day family account book extract
Description:
Extract from the Day family account books 1698-1753. The Days were a leading merchant family, with several members involved in the sugar and slave trade.
Creator: Day
Date: 1698-1753
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:40044/1
Playbill detail
Description:
Detail of playbill, showing a play called Ganem: Slave of Love; or the Shoe-Black Gent. 1865.
Ganem, the Slave of Love is one of the Arabian Nights tales.
Ganem, a merchant’s son, rescued a woman (possibly a slave), named Fetna/b from being buried alive.
He looked after her and found she was the favourite of the ruler of Muslims, or caliph, whom a jealous sultan (ruler of a Muslim country) ordered to be buried alive.
The caliph was at first jealous of Ganem and ordered him to be put to death, but Ganem escaped.
On hearing what had really happened, the caliph saw he had been wrong. He pardoned Ganem and gave him Fetna/b as a wife.
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: 1865
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:8982/169
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