Bilboes Recovered from the Henrietta Marie
subject: Slave Shackles
description: Recreations of the bilboes recovered from the shipwrecked slave ship Henrietta Marie. These and shackles like them were used to hold slaves' ankles in place while on the voyage across the Atlantic.
creator: Bennett Capozzi
date: 1701
format: Image
coverage: Early 18th Century

Petitions to British House of Commons in Defense of the Slave Trade
subject: Slave Trade
description: A newspaper article in the Caledonian Mercury describing recent petitions that have gone before Parliament in defense of the British slave trade.
creator: Bennett Capozzi
date: May 20, 1789
language: English
coverage: Late 18th Century

Letter to the Guinea Traders, &co.
subject: Slave Trade
description: A letter published in Honestus Mercator in July 1740 that argued against the continuation of the slave trade in the British Empire.
creator: Bennett Capozzi
date: July 1740
format: Printed Text
language: English

Goree Island Door of No Return
subject: Slave Trade Memorial
description: A picture of the Door of No Return on Goree Island, in a memorial to slaves who were forcibly held in the prison on Goree Island before being taken across the Atlantic.
creator: Bennett Capozzi
format: Image

Canada Papers
description: An ongoing correspondence between Major General Heath, Lieutenant General Burgoyne, General Phillips, and General Howe.
creator: Elizabeth O'Donnell
date: 1778
format: Appendix
coverage: Mid-eighteenth century

Parliamentary Register
description: A register of the provisions for troops already in America.
creator: Elizabeth O'Donnell
date: 1775
format: Pamphlet
coverage: Mid-eighteenth century

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Fortune Family
subject: Loyalists
description: A portion of a muster roll including discharged officers, discharged and disbanded soldiers and loyalists that came to Annapolis between June 18th and 24th in 1784. Specifically, "Fortune - a free Negro" is thought to be Rose Fortune's father and she is the child over 10 included in the muster roll.
creator: Elizabeth O'Donnell
publisher: Ward Chipman papers at the Library and Archives Canada
date: 1784
format: Muster Roll
language: English
coverage: late-eighteenth century

Rose Fortune
subject: Watercolor Painting
description: A watercolor painting of Rose Fortune by an unknown artist at an unknown date.
creator: Elizabeth O'Donnell
date: unknown
format: painting
coverage: early to mid nineteenth century

Ledgers from a Slave Ship
subject: Slave Trade
description: The ledgers of a prominent British slave trader Cranfield Becher that demonstrate the cold, dehumanizing economic language of the slave trade.
creator: Bennett Capozzi
date: 18th Century
format: Printed Text
language: English
coverage: 18th Century