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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description:
Print of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Toms Cabin – a book about slavery, written from a slaves point of view.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: unknown
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:75.76
Frontspiece of book
Description:
Frontspiece from book called Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr John Wheatly of Boston in New England.
Phillis Wheatley was enslaved at the age of about eight, and taken from Africa to America. She was taught to read by the Wheatley family, learning very fast and began to write. The book begins with a list of reputable people from Boston certifying that the poems were written by Phillis Wheatley, as many people did not believe that a black slave could write so well. Her poems often reflect her adopted Christian religion. This is one of the few portraits of a named African woman from this era.
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.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Creator: Philis Wheatley
Date: 1773
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:73.236
Parliamentary pamphlet
Description:
Parliamentary document relating to slavery. Pamphlet, printed in the reign of George II, with the Royal Seal on the front cover.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: Reign of George II
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:78.045
Model of slave quarters
Description:
Model of servants (slave) quarters, the James Innes Thornton plantation, Alabama, America, 1833.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: 1833
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:92.105
Model of Thornhill plantation house
Description:
Model of Thornhill plantation house, main house of the James Innes Thornton plantation, Alabama, America, 1833.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: 1833
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:92.119
Figures of Eva and Uncle Tom
Description:
Ceramic figures of Eva and Uncle Tom. Eva is standing and holding a pink hat and Uncle Tom is seated and reading a book. Uncle Toms Cabin was an emotional account of slavery, from a slaves point of view, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1850.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: unknown
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:NA 001
Parliamentary document
Description:
Parliamentary document in booklet form: An Act for indemnifying all Persons . . . Importation and Exportation . . . His Majestys West India Islands . . . [23 May 1806].
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: 23 May 1806
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:NA 039
Parliamentary document
Description:
Parliamentary Document in booklet form: An Act to make further Provision for facilitation and completing the Distribution and Payment of Compensation for Slaves upon the Abolition of Slavery. [18 May 1841].
The Abolition, or end, of slavery happened in 1834.
The slave owners and their supporters accepted the loss of their property (slaves) in return for compensation (money) from the government. £20 million was paid to slave owners by the British government, as compensation for this loss. Slave owners in Bristol received over £500,000 (worth about £25 million today); a vast sum at that time.
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: 18 May 1841
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:NA 041
Parliamentary document
Description:
Parliamentary document in booklet form: An Act for the more affectual Suppression of the Slave Trade . [24 August 1843].
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: 24 August 1843
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:NA 042
Parliamentary document
Description:
Parliamentary document in booklet form: An Act to continue . . . An Act for . . . Execution by Orders in Council any Treaties for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.. [10 August 1843].
Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.
Date: 10 August 1843
Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Object ID:NA 043
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