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27 de may. de 2024 · Saunders‘ vision materialized in the form of a magnificent Georgian structure, featuring a horseshoe-shaped auditorium that could accommodate over 1,600 patrons (Bristol Old Vic, 2021). The theatre‘s early years were marked by a struggle against the Licensing Act of 1737, which heavily censored stage productions.
30 de may. de 2024 · The building was used as a filming location for “At Home with the Georgians” and “A Respectable Trade”. Located on 7 Great George Road, The Georgian House Museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790.
23 de may. de 2024 · 23 May 2024. A new exhibition will explore how Leamington Spa benefited financially from colonialism and the transatlantic slave economy. It opens at the Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum on...
Hace 3 días · transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
30 de may. de 2024 · We visit a slave owner's house to explore what life in Bristol in the 18th century looked like. Located on 7 Great George Road, The Georgian House Museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790.
Hace 2 días · The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
29 de may. de 2024 · Many were toppled, including a statue of the English slave trader Edward Colston, which was torn down and throw into the canal in Bristol, his birthplace. Video footage of the incident went viral, sparking renewed debate over the memorialising of figures with such violent legacies.
