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Painting detail
Description:
St John Preaching in the Wilderness by Samuel Colman. 1822. In the foreground at the centre of this painting is the figure of a black man kneeling with his hands clasped, he is looking up at St John. It is likely that this figure represents the image of a kneeling black slave used by anti-slavery campaigners as their logo. The kneeling slave is asking for help from his white brothers. This image was widely used to raise support and awareness for the campaign, it appears on many items, from pamphlets through to china plates. The enslaved Africans were not as passive in their role as this symbol suggests, their continual fight against slavery was the main contributing factor to its abolition. The artist was probably making a political comment in his painting, by including this figure he is suggesting that he too is against the slave trade.
Creator: Samuel Colman
Date: 1822
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K4323
Furnishing fabric
Description:
Length of furnishing fabric with design based on anti-slavery etchings by George Moorelands.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Na2236
The Docks
Description:
Etching of the docks in Bristol with the Mud Dock on one side and Sydnham Teast’s ship yard on the other side.
Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.
Creator: Nicholas Pocock
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Mb5089
Desk from Nevis.
Description:
The desk was brought to Bristol from the Caribbean island of Nevis, by John Pinney who lived at 7, Great George Street (now the Georgian House Museum). Pinney owned a plantation in Nevis and later became a sugar merchant based in Bristol.
Date: Desk, 18th century; stand, later date
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
View of rivers Avon and Severn.
Description:
A view of the rivers Avon and Severn with ships, one of which is being towed.
Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.
Creator: Nicholas Pocock
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M3197
Portrait of Ann Leyborne (Mrs Popham)
Description:
Portrait of Ann Leyborne (Mrs Popham), by Thomas Gainsborough.
Ann Leyborne was the wife of William Leyborne, the Governor general of Grenada, Dominica, St Vincent and Tobago, 1771 – 1775.
Creator: Thomas Gainsborough
Date: c1763
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K2632
St James Fair (detail)
Description:
St James Fair (detail). A small anti-slavery poster can be seen on the awning of this Quaker booksellers stall. Quakers are non-conformist Christians who were against the slave trade and supported its abolition.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Snuff box.
Description:
Snuff box with silver mounted shell. Snuff is a type of tobacco which is snorted instead of smoked. Tobacco was grown on plantations in the Caribbean and Americas.
Date: c1730
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Na1888
Snuff box
Description:
Snuff box with tortoiseshell and ivory.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Na1888
Beer jug of John Hugh Smyth.
Description:
Beer jug of John Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.
Date: 1757
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:N6370
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