Artefact

Artefact: Account book for the snow, 'Molly', a slave ship This account book records details of the Africans purchased at Bonny, in Ghana, for a voyage to the Caribbean in 1759.

Artefact: $150 reward poster This is an Amercian poster advertising a substantial reward for a runaway slave.

Artefact: Box, possibly for tobacco The use of the abolitionist logo of a chained, kneeling slave shown pleading to Europeans to give him his freedom was widely encouraged.

Artefact: Advertising bill for abolition This advertising bill, or poster, announces a public meeting to be held by the Constable, Joseph Gosnay, on 10 November 1830 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

Artefact: 'An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction' This is a steel engraving of people being punished in a prison in Jamaica in 1837 when slavery had officially been abolished, but during the period of apprenticeship.

Artefact: Branding iron This is a replica of an early 19th century branding iron from America.

Artefact: Iron neck ring This iron neck ring and chains would have been worn to restrain enslaved Africans.

Artefact: Cat o'nine tails A cat o'nine tails is a whip with nine knotted lashes.

Artefact

Artefact: 'Female Negro Slave, With A Weight chained to her Ankle' This print of a "Female Negro Slave, With A Weight chained to her Ankle" is from J.G. Steadman

Artefact: Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (Copy) Scipio Africanus the name of a celebrated Roman general, was also that given to a young African servant buried in Henbury, Bristol, in 1720.