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Author: EICKELMANN, CHRISTINE
Title: PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Description: Redcliffe Press Ltd, UK, 2004. First Edition, Softcover. New. 9781904537038 64 pages. Available Now. Book Description: PERO was an enslaved man, born on the West Indian island of Nevis. He was owned by the sugar planter and merchant John Pinney whose Mountravers estate was a key plantation on the West coast of Nevis. Pero worked as Pinney's servant at Mountravers for 18 years, having regular contact with the enslaved populations on the neighbouring estates as well as with the free people of the island. In 1783 he was taken to England where the Pinney family settled in Bristol, England. Their town house is now the city's Georgian House Museum. : In 1999 a footbridge on Bristol's Harbourside was named after him and his name has become a familiar one in the city. The bridge commemorates, and pays tribute to, all those Africans and West Indians who were enslaved by Bristol's merchants and planters. Their toil in the North American and Caribbean plantations made people like Pinney rich, and by the time Pero left Nevis in the 1780s, Bristol had become wealthy on the proceeds of the slave trade and plantation slavery. : The authors Christine Eickelmann and David Small have pieced together the story of Pero's life as a servant in Nevis and in Bristol as well as that of some other servants and free Nevisians who travelled back and forth across the Atlantic. At a time when the black population in England totalled perhaps 15,000, their research throws light on how the eighteenth-century master and black servant relationship worked in practice. : Review: It is the pain-staking reclamation of these forgotten lives which constitutes the most significant aspect of this book. -- The Regional Historian, Autumn 2004 Size: 21.1 x 0.7 x 22 cm. 64 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 6. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Paperback; ISBN: 1904537030. ISBN/EAN: 9781904537038. Inventory No: B200-1064.
Keywords: BZDB395 Biography & Autobiography; Paperback; PERO The Life of a Slave in EighteenthCentury Bristol Christine Eickelmann Paperback
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Title: PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Description: Redcliffe Press Ltd, UK, 2004. First Edition, Softcover. New. 9781904537038 64 pages. Available Now. Book Description: PERO was an enslaved man, born on the West Indian island of Nevis. He was owned by the sugar planter and merchant John Pinney whose Mountravers estate was a key plantation on the West coast of Nevis. Pero worked as Pinney's servant at Mountravers for 18 years, having regular contact with the enslaved populations on the neighbouring estates as well as with the free people of the island. In 1783 he was taken to England where the Pinney family settled in Bristol, England. Their town house is now the city's Georgian House Museum. : In 1999 a footbridge on Bristol's Harbourside was named after him and his name has become a familiar one in the city. The bridge commemorates, and pays tribute to, all those Africans and West Indians who were enslaved by Bristol's merchants and planters. Their toil in the North American and Caribbean plantations made people like Pinney rich, and by the time Pero left Nevis in the 1780s, Bristol had become wealthy on the proceeds of the slave trade and plantation slavery. : The authors Christine Eickelmann and David Small have pieced together the story of Pero's life as a servant in Nevis and in Bristol as well as that of some other servants and free Nevisians who travelled back and forth across the Atlantic. At a time when the black population in England totalled perhaps 15,000, their research throws light on how the eighteenth-century master and black servant relationship worked in practice. : Review: It is the pain-staking reclamation of these forgotten lives which constitutes the most significant aspect of this book. -- The Regional Historian, Autumn 2004 Size: 21.1 x 0.7 x 22 cm. 64 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 6. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Paperback; ISBN: 1904537030. ISBN/EAN: 9781904537038. Inventory No: B200-1064.
Keywords: BZDB395 Biography & Autobiography; Paperback; PERO The Life of a Slave in EighteenthCentury Bristol Christine Eickelmann Paperback
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- Book number: B200-1064
- Book number: B200-1064
See more books from our catalog: Biography & Autobiography