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The Burning of the Bishops Palace

Description:

_The Burning of the Bishops Palace, Bristol (c. 1831) _ by W J Muller

Creator: W J Muller

Date: 1831

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:M4122

Uncle Tom and Eva

Figurine of Uncle Tom and Eva

Description:

Figurine of Uncle Tom and Eva. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an emotional account of slavery, from a slave’s point of view, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1850.

Date: unknown

Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

The Rev Thomas Roberts

The Rev Thomas Roberts

Description:

The Rev Thomas Roberts, by James Curnock (c.1840). Rev Roberts was a pastor, from 1807, of the Baptist churches in Pithay and then and then in King Street. He was active in the anti-slavery movement as symbolised by the chains in the portrait. His obituary spoke of his extraordinary efforts towards the emancipation of slaves and extinction of slavery in all parts of the world. (Emancipation means end on slavery). After Britain abolished slavery, he continued to campaign against slavery in the USA, South America and India.

Creator: James Curnock

Date: c. 1840

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:K5889

Letter concerning a slave

Letter concerning a slave

Description:

Letter dated 2nd November, 1819, from Mr. A. Fashe regarding the freeing of his sister’s slave, Mary Ellis, from the Lodge Estate on the Caribbean island of Jamaica.

Creator: A Fashe

Date: 2nd November 1819

Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service

Medallion commemorating Abolition

Commemorative medallion

Description:

Medallion commemorating Abolition (the end of the slave trade). This side of the medallion has a slave bathed in light breaking free from chains and reads Liberty proclaimed to the Captives.

Date: 1st August 1834

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:0.4266

Commemorative medallion

An African and a European shaking hands

Description:

Commemorative medallion for the abolition of the slave trade, 1807. Abolition was marked by the issue of several medallions. This one shows an African and a European shaking hands.

Date: 1807

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:O. 1620

Advert placed by bookseller

Advert placed by bookseller

Description:

Advertisement: Debates of the House of Commons on the Slave Trade, Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 1792. The bookseller S Sellick is advertising a published account of a debate in the House of Commons on the slave trade, in which leading Abolitionist campaigner, William Wilberforce, describes the brutality of the trade. He referred in particular to a Bristol ship’s captain called John Kimber. Kimber ordered that a young female slave be whipped because she was unwell and could not eat. The girl died from her injuries five days later.

Creator: Felix Farley's Bristol Journal

Date: 1792

Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service

John Pinney

John Pinney

Description:

Portrait of John Pinney, signed Maynard (c. 1765). John Pinney was a wealthy sugar merchant and plantation owner who lived at 7, Great George Street, Bristol, which is now a museum called the Georgian House.

Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.

Creator: Maynard

Date: c. 1765

Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Anti-Abolition meeting minutes

Printed minutes from Anti-Abolition meeting

Description:

Anti-Abolition meeting minutes printed for circulation for meeting held at London Tavern, London 9th April, 1789. Circulated to alert people to the threat of Abolition and to urge merchants, etc, to give evidence to the proposed House of Commons Select Committee.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 9th April, 1789

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

Charles Pinney

Charles Pinney

Description:

Charles Pinney, attributed to Maynard (no first name as exact identity unsure). Charles Pinney became Lord Mayor of Bristol in 1831. He was the son of John Pinney, a wealthy plantation owner and sugar merchant.

Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.

Creator: Maynard

Date: unknown

Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

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