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Many of the city’s public buildings, educational and economic institutions (such as the Theatre Royal, Colston’s School, the Old Bank and the tobacco and sugar industries), owe their origins to the wealth created by the trade in enslaved Africans and slave-produced commodities.
The creation of The Old Bank shows how Bristol’s relationship with the slave trade benefited the city and the country in a multitude of ways, and displaying how the ripple effect of slavery touched almost every corner of Bristol’s society.
9 de sept. de 2018 · In tribute to the victims of the slave trade lines from Miles Chambers’s poem Bristol! Bristol!, which speaks of the city’s “historical hangover”, will appear on one side.
16 de mar. de 2007 · Along with Liverpool and London, Bristol was one of the main British ports involved in the slave trade. However, despite the fact that much of Bristol's wealth relied on this and other trades,...
Bristol’s 16th Century Slave Traders: The Spanish Connection. Was Bristol hero John Cabot really a slave trader? Historian Heather Dalton explains it was actually Cabot’s son Sebastian who, along with his contemporaries, introduced the port to the idea of enslaving Africans.
Bristol became one of the biggest centres of the transatlantic slave trade between 1725 and 1740, when it is estimated that profits of 5-20% were made from the trading of black slaves. Between 1730 and 1745, it became the leading English slaving port.
Using the records of compensation awarded when slavery was abolished in 1834, the team of citizen researchers will identify Bristol’s slave owners and find out how their money has shaped Bristol’s built environment, businesses and charities.
