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‘Miserable, desolate and discouraging’: is this an accurate
description of slave life?
Montage of images showing Africans being sold into slavery, adverts for slave auctions and the pursuit of runaway slaves in Barbados.
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Source 1. Account of a slave auction. Taken from William Wilberforce, A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire, London, 1807.
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Source 2. Account of slave life by Mr Thomas. Taken from Abridgement of the Minutes of Evidence taken before a Committee considering the Slave Trade, 1789.
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Source 3. Evidence of Mr Francis regarding the treatment of slaves. Taken from The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1791.
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Source 4. Description of an atypical slaveowner. Taken from Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa as written by himself, London, 1789.
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