Slave Trade Port, Ringers Tobacco Factory, Bristol

Photograph taken May 1987 © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: bb010807

Ringers Tobacco Factory. The manufacture of tobacco became an important trade in Bristol. Tobacco was imported from the West Indies and America, where it was cut by slaves.

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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.

Slave Trade Port, Ringers Tobacco Factory, Bristol

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