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Collection: Legacies of Slavery

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The final page of the document has another witness signature and administrative information.

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Newspaper advert titled ELOPED.

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Newspaper advert titled NOTICE.

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Newspaper advert for the Interesting narrative of Olaudah Equiano, summarising the book and including quotes from positive reviewers. It also advertises Equiano's visit to Aberdeen: "To be had on Thursday next, of the Author, at Mr. Spalding's, Marishal Street; of Messrs Angus and Son, Mr. Brown, and the other booksellers."

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Pages of a manuscript journal with barely legible handwriting. Half of one page has been torn out. Visible are illustrations in black ink of a white man with curly hair, a pony tail and ruddy cheeks; a large sail ship, and a flying fish.

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Pages of a manuscript journal with a coloured illustration of a light brown woman wearing a white and yellow patterned dress. She has gold earrings and black, bushy hair partly tied up. She is feeding a chicken. The illustration is captioned: "Mullatoe woman in her morning dress".

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Pages of a manuscript journal with an illustration of two pairs of Black men and women. One pair, captioned "Field Slaves" wears simple white caps, the man trousers, the woman a loincloth, both have their chests exposed. The other pair is captioned "Town Slaves". The man wears a brimmed hat, a jacket and striped trousers and holds a set square and compasses; the woman wears a yellow cap, white shirt and yellow dress with her breasts exposed.

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Pages of a manuscript journal with an illustration of a rainy scene. Outside a hut, Black children crowd around a drainpipe out of which water is flowing. A Black woman dressed in only a skirt carries a bucket on her head, smokes a pipe and carries a baby wrapped in cloth around her waist. Another Black woman wearing a full dress shelters under an umbrella and carries a gold coloured child.

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Pages of a manuscript journal with illustrations of a blue heron like bird and a white man being attended by a Black barber. The white man wears yellow and white striped clothing and is reading a book. The barber has a comb in his hair and a pocket full of tools. There is also a Black child sitting on the floor.

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Pages of a manuscript journal with musical notation and an illustration of a Black person wearing a loincloth and holding a bunch of dripping rags. The surrounding text describes houses being washed.

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