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Picture called A Negro Festival
Description:
Picture called A Negro Festival, St Vincent , by Agostino Brunyas, 1794.
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.
Creator: Agostino Brunyas
Date: 1794
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
A View of the Ship Cumberland
Description:
A View of the Ship Cumberland , by Nicholas Pocock, 1778.
Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.
Creator: Pocock
Date: 1778
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K 3002
The Death of Colston
Description:
The Death of Colston, by Richard Jeffreys Lewis, c1844. Edward Colston was a prominent sugar merchant, charitable donator, and an official on the board of London-based trading company,the Royal African Company. An imaginary deathbed scene showing Colston’s servant, an enslaved African known as Black Mary,kneeling by his bedside.
Creator: RJ Lewis
Date: c1844
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K3044
Tobacconists figure
Description:
Tobacconists figure of an African, c1750.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: c1750
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Portrait of an African
Description:
Portrait of an African , French School, c1825.
With thanks to Ms Gallagher for the use of this item.
Creator: French School
Date: c1825
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Colston’s School boy
Description:
Figure of a Colston’s School boy. Edward Colston was a prominent sugar merchant, charitable donator, and an official on the board of London-based trading company, the Royal African Company.He gave most of his money to philanthropic (human) causes in Bristol and London. He had many trading interests outside the African trade, and how much of his money came from his Royal African Company and sugar interests, and how much from the European cloth, oil and wine trade, is impossible to say. Many people deny his involvement in the slave trade; others see him as the biggest slave trader in Bristol.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:N 8755
Colston’s School badge
Description:
Colston’s School badge. Edward Colston was a prominent sugar merchant, charitable donator, and an official on the board of London-based trading company,the Royal African Company. One of his charitable acts was the establishment of a school for 100 boys. His symbol was a dolphin, and the pupils wore a brass or silver dolphin badge on their uniform.
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:G 1849
Cartoon showing John Bull
Description:
John Bull taking a Clear View of the Negro Slave Question!! by George Cruikshank, 1826. Pro-slavery activists such as John Bull claimed that the slaves on the plantations were happy, well-fed and contented.
With thanks to Wilberforce House, Hull Museums, UK, for the use of this item.
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.
Creator: George Cruikshank
Date: 1826
Copyright: Hull City Museums and Art Galleries
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