Building connected to Slave Trade, Bristol

Photograph taken 21 September 2002 © Historic England Archive/N.L. Stones ref: 380252

Henry Bright, a Merchant Venturer and slave trader lived at 29 Queen Square, Bristol with his black servant called Bristol. He was also a Mayor of Bristol.

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Bristol Bristol

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Georgian (1714 - 1836)

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Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history.

Building connected to Slave Trade, Bristol

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