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28 de oct. de 2023 · Publication date 1985 Topics history, Bristol, slavery, African slave trade, slave trade, enslaved Publisher Bristol Historical Association Collection bristol-record-society-collection; additional_collections Language English Rights The pamphlet was published by the Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, based at the University of Bristol.
They would also write to the slave traders in West Africa about the price and supply of slaves. The Bristol slave trader, Thomas Jones, for example, personally corresponded with one such trader in Africa. He was known by the nick-name, Duke Ephraim, and came from Old Calabar in Nigeria, West Africa. He was one of the main slave traders in the area.
Outward Passage. For Bristol merchants the slave trade seemed an unmissable invitation to prosperity. For example, the Warmley Brass Company, owned by the Goldney and Champion families, exported "Guinea" cooking pots. The outward voyage from Bristol was made with Guinea Brass pots, trinkets, beads, copper rods, cotton goods, guns and alcohol ...
Although John Cabot did own and sell a slave called Marina in Crete in 1483, there is no evidence that he was involved in the African slave trade. However, there is plenty of evidence that other 16th century Bristolians, including his son, Sebastian Cabot, were. Sebastian Cabot left England in 1512 with the English army to Spain as part of the ...
9 de oct. de 2015 · Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of association when dealing with African trade and slavery. They abhorred the idea of trading ...
So people in Bristol criticised the slave trade, but no one did anything to end it. People might have been afraid of the possible economic effects on the city should the slave trade be abolished. The Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce, the public face of the Abolition campaign, came to Bristol in 1791 to encourage the local campaign.
22 de nov. de 2022 · With the Legacies of Slavery report, we are bringing our history to light to learn from it, supporting our communities in the present and creating an inclusive future. Like many universities across the world, we commissioned research to understand our links and connections to the trafficking of enslaved African people. We have done this to ...
