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: 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: Description of a Slave Ship, about 1788 This is a print showing how Africans were packed into the slave ship Brookes, with text recording the dimensions and amount of space available.

Artefact: HM Brig 'Acorn', 16 guns, in chase of the piratical slaver 'Gabriel', 1841 The 'Acorn' was launched in November 1838 and in 1839 sailed from Plymouth for anti-slavery operations.

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

Artefact: 'Daru' off Elmina Castle This oil painting is called 'Daru' off Elmina Castle and was painted in 1958 by John Stobart.

Artefact: Leg-irons These 19th century leg-irons were used to restrain enslaved people and stop them escaping, especially on board ship during the Middle Passage.

Artefact: Model of the 'Brookes', slave ship This is a wooden model of the 'Brookes', owned by a Liverpool family, which carried slaves from the West coast of Africa to Jamaica in the West Indies.

Artefact: Rum bottle Rum was one of the products manufactured on the plantations of the West Indies by slave labour.

Artefact: 'Slave in chains' This oil painting is by an unidentified British artist and dates between about 1820 and 1850.