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Detail from painting

Painting detail

Description:

Detail from the bottom left hand side the painting The Southwell Frigate Tradeing on ye Coast of Africa (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock. This detail of the Bristol slave ship shows the ship anchored in the back ground. The ship’s captain stands shaking hands with the African trader who has sold him the enslaved Africans being loaded into a rowing boat.

Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.

Creator: Nicholas Pocock

Date: c. 1760

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:M669

The Calabar Bell

The Calabar Bell

Description:

This bell was a gift from a Bristol slave trader Thomas Jones to his African trading partner Robin John, in Old Calabar (now Nigeria, West Africa). Gifts were exchanged between European and African traders to maintain the sometimes troubled relationship between them.

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: unknown

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

A View of ye Blandford Frigate

A View of ye Blandford Frigate

Description:

A View of ye Blandford Frigate (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock.

Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.

Creator: Nicholas Pocock

Date: c. 1760

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:M670

Bill of lading for cargo of Juba

Bill of lading for cargo shipped on Juba

Description:

Document: Bill of lading for a cargo shipped on the Juba from Old Calabar to West Indies in 1788. The cargo included 115 Males and 115 Females as well as ivory, palm oil and dyewood.

A bill of lading is an official record of goods being carried on a ship.

Date: 1788

Copyright: National Archives

Object ID:CO 107/2

Story of slave uprising and punishment

Story of slave uprising and punishment

Description:

Farley Bristol Advertiser 30 March, 1744, story of slave uprising and punishment.

Creator: Farley Bristol Advertiser

Date: 30 March, 1744

Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service

Accounts from a slave ship 1774

Accounts from a slave ship

Description:

This page from the accounts book of the Bristol slave ship, the Africa, shows the owners’ shares from the first voyage made by the ship in 1774. There were eight owners with equal shares.

Date: 1774

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

The Rivers Severn and Avon

The Rivers Severn and Avon

Description:

The Rivers Severn and Avon, detail from A New and Correct Delineation of the Citty of Bristol by James Millerd, 1673. This map shows the route from Bristol out to sea, via the river Severn.

Creator: James Millerd

Date: 1673

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Detail from A View of ye Jason Privateer (left hand side vignette)

Detail from A View of ye Jason Privateer

Description:

Detail (left hand side vignette) from A View of ye Jason Privateer (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock. Shows enslaved Africans being put into the ship’s boat.

Nicholas Pocock was an artist and sailor who drew pictures of ships, featuring slave trading on the coast of Africa.

Creator: Nicholas Pocock

Date: c. 1760

Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum

Object ID:M671

Plan of Baptist Mills brass works

Plan of Baptist Mills brassworks near Bristol

Description:

Right hand side of plan of Baptist Mills brass works near Bristol.Founded in 1702 and closed in 1814.

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.

Creator: unknown

Date: 1702 - 1814

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

Plan of Baptist Mills brassworks

Plan of Baptist Mills brassworks near Bristol

Description:

Left hand side of plan of Baptist Mills brass works near Bristol. Founded in 1702 and closed in 1814

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.

Creator: unknown

Date: 1702 - 1814

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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