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Chocolate factory

Chocolate factory

Description:

Representation of a chocolate factory, from Diderots Dictionnaire des Sciences , 1762.

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.

Creator: Diderot

Date: 1762

Copyright: Copyright Bristol University

General list of slaves

Pinney papers, general list of slaves

Description:

General list of slaves owned by John Pinney, with reference to Sheba and Pero Jones. John Pinney owned plantations on the Caribbean island of Nevis.

Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.

Creator: Pinney

Copyright: Copyright Bristol University

The Boiling House

The Boiling House

Description:

The Boiling House from Diderot, Dictionnaire Des Sciences , 1762. Sugar cane juice was boiled as part of the sugar making process.

Creator: Diderot

Date: 1762

Copyright: Copyright Bristol University

The Boiling House

The Boiling House

Description:

Picture: Sugar The Boiling House from Diderot, Dictionnaire Des Sciences , 1762.

Creator: Diderot

Date: 1762

Copyright: Copyright Bristol University

The Inhuman phase of slave life

The Inhuman phase of slave life

Description:

Picture: Phases in slave life: Phase 7, the Inhuman.

Copyright: Copyright Bristol University

Plan of sugar mill and boiling house

Plan of sugar mill and boiling house

Description:

Plan of sugar mill and boiling house, from New River Estate plantation on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. Five pans of decreasing size were used to boil the sugar juice.

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Slave card, In the Cotton Field

Slave card, In the Cotton Field

Description:

One of a set of 12 slave cards, probably produced for the Abolition movement in the USA.

The card is called In the Cotton Field , and appears to show a slave picking cotton.

Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.

Date: 1860

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Object ID:65.194.1-12

Certificate for hiring of slaves

Certificate for hiring of slaves

Description:

Certificate for hire of slave woman and child, framed.

Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Object ID:69.48.1-2

Framed Photograph

Framed Photograph

Description:

Framed Photograph: print, black man with child in bull-drawn cart, standing in road in front of a house.

Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Object ID:66.78.5

Slave market in Richmond

Slave market in Richmond

Description:

Framed print of engraving Une vente L esclaves, a Charleston (slave market in Richmond, America), from a French publication.

Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.

Creator: French periodical

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Object ID:68.300.2

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