| Bristol...the slavery trail |
Home
Introduction
The
Docks
Power
Wealth
Trade
Campaigns
Legacy
Activities
Links
Trail
Map
Bristol is over 1000 years old. It has been a city for over 700 years. Its involvement with the Transatlantic slave trade lasted just over 150 years from around the 1660's to the early 1800's. So the history of Bristol is not just about the enslavement of Africans. Nor was Bristol the only slaving port in Britain. But it was the trade in Africans, and even more importantly, the trade in the goods from slave plantations, which helped to make Bristol such a beautiful and prosperous port.
The streets you will visit on this trail are real places. On your virtual visit you will learn about those who walked these same streets before you -- in the days of slavery. The characters you will meet are rich and poor, black and white, slave and free. All of them -- from the powerful to the powerless -- are based on real people. Their letters, adverts and stories, which you will also find here, are genuine historical documents. The moral dilemmas and the difficult decisions their stories raise are still with us today.
Click here for acknowlegements and further information about this material
