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Slave chain (with 3 neck-rings or shackles) made of iron. The chain was manufactured in Europe but discovered in 1937 in Kumase, Ghana.

Bristol, England

Recreations of the bilboes recovered from the shipwrecked slave shipHenrietta Marie. These and shackles like them were used to hold slaves' ankles in place while on the voyage across the Atlantic.

City Intelligence announcement about an incident of stolen baggage.

Albany, New York

A citizen of Charleston promotes an auction selling imported goods such as silk, Irish linens, and sugar.

Advertisement in the London Evening Post for American Pine-Bud tea being sold as a medical remedy in Bristol, Piccadilly, Bath, York, Sheffield, and Oxford.

Advertisement for Bristol Porcelain to be sold at auction by Mssrs. Christie and Ansell.

In this letter, Admiral Rodney expresses his concerns regarding the Free Port Act. He contends that it enriches the French and the Spanish while hurting British commerce.

LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,