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Musical instrument, xylophone
Description:
Musical instrument, xylophone?, from Sierra Leone.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Ea 12256
Jack, a named slave
Description:
Jack, one of the earliest photographs of a named slave, 1850. Jack was an enslaved African from the Guinea coast. He was a driver, or slave overseer, for Mr B F Taylor of Columbia, South Carolina. This is one of many photographs taken for a scientist who wished to prove that different races were separate species, and thus disprove Darwin’s theory of evolution
Date: 1850
Copyright: Peabody Museum
Relief
Description:
Wax relief of Rev Thomas Biddulph. Biddulph was vicar of St James’ Church, Bristol, in 1800, and then moved on to be the first vicar of St Matthew’s Church, Cotham, Bristol. He was on the Committee of the Bristol Anti-Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1823. An ardent Evangelical, he actively supported the emancipation of slaves (end of slavery) in British terrirtories in the 1820s, whilst opposing political equality for Catholics at home
Copyright: Lent by owner
Object ID:G 1909
Richard Hart Davis
Description:
Painting: Richard Hart Davis, esq , MP (detail), after Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1830.
Creator: Sir Thomas Lawrence
Date: 1830
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M 905
Prayer at the Church of God of Prophecy
Description:
Photograph: Prayer at the Church of God of Prophecy, Bristol.
With thanks to Mark Simmons for the use of this image.
Date: 20th century
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Emma Head
Description:
Photograph of Emma Head (daughter of Henry Parker, runaway slave), 1896.
With thanks to Jenny Randall for the use of this item.
Date: 1896
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Bristol Harbour
Description:
Bristol Harbour with the Cathedral and the Quay , by Nicholas Pocock, 1785.
Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.
Creator: Pocock
Date: 1785
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K 742
Bank note
Description:
Bristol Commercial Bank note for £1, dated 1804
Creator: Bristol Commercial Bank
Date: 1804
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:O. 3879
Tortoiseshell Comb
Description:
Tortoiseshell comb. Tortoiseshell could be cut, heated and moulded into shape, and was mainly used for decorative pieces
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:TB 1476
Warmley steam engine
Description:
Warmley steam engine, from Angersteins notebook.
By courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library.
Creator: Angerstein
Date: unknown
Copyright: University of Liverpool Library
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