Sad reminders of Bristol slave trade
Auction house Greenslade Taylor Hunt of Taunton is offering a collection of early 19th century documents detailing original slave registrations/ returns.
They record in detail the slaves owned by Philip John Miles (1774-1845), a Bristol merchant venturer and member of parliament, on the Miles family’s sugar plantations in Hanover Parish, County of Cornwall, North West Jamaica, dated 1817, 1820 and 1823.