Gallery of artefacts

Africa Before Transatlantic Enslavement

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  King Manila
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  Ivory Trade Token
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  Ivory Bracelet
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  Wooden Oboe or Algiata
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  Wrought Iron Gong
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  Brass Plaque, Nigeria

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  Engraving of the City of Loango
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  Ivory Tobacco Rasp
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  Guinea Coin, 1686
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  Calabash Bottle
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  Calabash Guitar
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  Drum from Haiti

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  Head of an 'Oba' from the Edo of Benin
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  Mask of the Sande Society
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  Small drum
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  Small drum with stick
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  'Talking' drum from the Asante of Ghana
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  Welt River Harp

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  Adala Anklets
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  Asante boxes for gold dust
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  Asante cosmetic pots
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  Asante stool
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  Asante sword and sheath
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  Asante weights for gold dust

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  Bow lyre
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  Benin Leopard
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  Bead bracelets
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  Baule comb

Trade & Commerce

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  Taste in high life
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  Receipt
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  The Thomas King entering London Docks
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  A View of Nevis from St. Kitts
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  Small Manillas
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  Yoke

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  Sugar nippers
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  Scene on the coast of Africa
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  Musket
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  Ceremonial Headdress
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  Plantation Token, 1688
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  List of Negroes and Stock

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  Pearlware jug depicting a boxing match
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  The family of Sir William Young
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  Slave sale poster, 1829
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  Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (copy)
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  The Island of Goree, 1806
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  Chocolate pot, c1760

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  Earthenware sugar loaf mould, c1670
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  'Slave Trade, 1791'
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  African hospitality'
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  Beads
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  Cowrie-shell belt
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  Glass bottle

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  'Portrait of Sir John Hawkins, (1532 - 95)'
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  Charicature by James Gillray
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  'Horse and Dog Trim'
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  Scrimshaw Walrus tusk
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  Slave Trade, 1791
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  Sugar Cane

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  The Georgian House - Library
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  The Georgian House - Exterior
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  The Georgian House - Pantry
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  King Manila
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  Ivory trade token
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  Ivory bracelet

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  Account book for the Snow,  'Molly'

Atlantic Crossing

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  Leg Irons
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  Slave sale poster, 1829
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  'Daru off Elmina Castle'
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  Account book for the Snow,  'Molly'
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  'Separation of families'
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  Punishment collar

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  'Cat o'nine tails'
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  'Sale of slaves by auction'
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  Description of a slave ship
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  HM Brig 'Acorn', 16 guns, in chase of the piratical slaver
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  Iron neck ring
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  Model of the 'Brookes', slave ship

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  Rum bottle
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  'Slave in Chains'
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  Surgical instrument set
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  Branding iron

Plantation Life

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  Capoeira Dance, Brazil, 1830s
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  Stick Fighting, Dominica, West Indies, 1779
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  Dance or Festival, Havana, Cuba
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  Festival of Our Lady of the Rosary
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  Slaves Fighting, Brazil
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  Dance, St. Vincent, West Indies

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  Slave Festival, Surinam
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  Milkmaid and Milk Sellers
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  Slaves Conversing, Paramaribo
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  John Canoe Costume
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  John Canoe Costume
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  John Canoe Costume

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  John Canoe Dancers, 1837
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  John Canoe Dancers, Jamaica
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  Pearlware jug depicting a boxing match
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  Sugar Crushing Mill, 1700s
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  The Sun Newspaper, 15 December 1800
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  List of Negroes and Stock

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  Plantation Token, 1688
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  Copy letter to the Bristol slave trader
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  Sugar Cane
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  The Georgian House - Library
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  The Georgian House - Exterior
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  Sale of slaves by auction'

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  'Separation of families'
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  Account book for the Snow
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  Punishment collar
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  The family of Sir William Young
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  Branding iron
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  Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (copy)

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  'Talking' drum from the Asante of Ghana
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  Small drum
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  Slave sale poster, 1829
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  $150 Reward Poster
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  'Female Negro Slave...
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  'Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua'

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  Ownership Manacle (lock and key)
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  'Rosa ordered to be flogged'
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  Silver whip

Resistance & Rebellion

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  Stick Fighting, Dominica, West Indies
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  'Pacification with the Maroon Negroes'
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  Carved wooden figure
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  A rebel negro armed and on his guard'
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  'A negro hung alive by the ribs to a gallows'
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  Machete

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  Leonard Parkinson, captain of the Maroons
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  'Run away... Jack' advertisement
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  'Toussaint L'Ouverture
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  'Trelawny Town...
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  Nancy Burns' Headscarf
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  Handcuffs

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  The Chalice Quilt
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  A Negroes Dance in the Island of St Dominica

The Campaign for Abolition

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  Description of a slave ship...
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  Gravestones of Scipio Africanus
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  Charicature by James Gillray
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  Learning is Wealth
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  Anti-slavery medallion
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  Pacification with the Maroon Negroes'

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  'The Death of Colston'
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  Wilberforce family Bible
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  Tapestry, 19th century
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  Curved plaque made from decorated whale jawbone
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  Abolition campaign Sugar bowl
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  Abolition Campaign medallion

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  Portrait of a Gentleman
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  Advertising Bill for Abolition
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  Octagonal Transferware Plate
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  Spelter bust of Uncle Tom
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  Box, possibly for tobacco
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  Abolition commemorative token

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  Abolition Seal
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  Frontis-piece of Olaudah Equiano
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  Frontis-piece of Ignatius Sancho
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  Portrait of Thomas Clarkson
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  Portrait of William Wilberforce
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  Slave Trade Abolished by Great Britain

Emancipation

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  Abolition of slavery in Jamaica
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  To the friends of Negro emancipation
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  Bust of an enslaved African in chains
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  Bunce Island, Sierra Leone
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  Portrait of Nancy Burns
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  Nancy Burns' Headscarf

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  Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica
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  'Slavery in Zanzibar'
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  Newly released captives on board HMS London
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  Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (copy)
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  HM Brig 'Acorn', 16 guns, in chase
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  Carved wooden figure

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  Learning is Wealth
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  De'Ah, a maid, about 1900

Legacies

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  John Canoe Dancers, 1837
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  John Canoe Costume
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  John Canoe Costume
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  Milkmaid and Milk Sellers
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  Slave Festival, Surinam
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  Dance, St. Vincent, West Indies

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  Slaves Fighting, Brazil
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  Festival of Our Lady of the Rosary
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  Dance or Festival, Havana, Cuba
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  Capoeira Dance, Brazil, 1830s
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  John Canoe Dancers, Jamaica
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  John Canoe Costume

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  Racist grafitti on a brick wall
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  Bust of an enslaved African in chains
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  Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica
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  'Slavery in Zanzibar', about 1890
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  De'Ah, a maid, about 1900
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  Newly released captives on board HMS London

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  Caribbean Labour solidarity newsletter
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  'Rock Against Racism' concert programme, c1978
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  TUC book on racism in the workplace
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  Outposts of Empire: Barbados
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  Racist sticker produced by the British Movement
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  ******** Apron

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  Ku Klux Klan Costume
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  'An interior view of a Jamaica house of correction'
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  New Years card
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  Racist advert for Pear's soap
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  Calypso Rum bottle, about 1970

Diaspora

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  'Rock Against Racism' concert programme
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  Disabled plant seller, about 1800
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  Engraving of Ira Aldridge
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  Policemen and revellers at the Notting Hill Carnival
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  Poster of Barack Obama
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  Caribbean Labour solidarity newsletter

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  Joy Gardner Campaign handbill, 1993
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  Racist grafitti on a brick wall