DiscoveringBristol.org.uk
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PortCities Bristol
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About This Site
In 1999 a major exhibition examining Bristol's role in the transatlantic slave trade was held at the City Museum & Art Gallery. A Respectable Trade? Bristol & Transatlantic Slavery proved to be of one of the most visited exhibits in the history of the museum as it provided the first chance to find out about the slave trade through a major exhibition. This website is a further development of this exhibition and aims to provide access for more people to see the material available.
Material from the City Museum, Bristol Record Office, Bristol Central Library, the University of Bristol Library and the Society of Merchant Venturers, which was collected together for the exhibition, has now been photographed for this site. Additional research has been carried out at The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, John Wesley's chapel and the John Judkyn Memorial Museum in order to add new items to the site.
Development of the website has enabled a continuation of the relationship between the City Museum and the University of the West of England's Faculty of Humanities. The facts on this site are a direct result of this collaboration. Credit is given to Madge Dresser, Principal Lecturer in History at UWE and Sue Giles, City Museum's Curator of Ethnography & Foreign Archaeology. For links to other material on the subject of the slave trade, please click on the Learning & Resources option to your left.
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