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Protest placards. One bears the words: ' Aberdeen's MP 1792-1801 "sold about as many black men as there are white in his native city" The granite city is not innocent '. The other says ' "Nae pride fir som o'eis withoot liberation fir ah o'eis" - Marsha P. Johnson (Doric translation) '.

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Manuscript letter. This page lists enslaved people purchased to work on Georgia Estate.

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Trade guns. A large rifle, almost two metres long, with a dark wooden body and steel barrel and mechanism. The butt is coated in a fibrous material and is decorated with strings of cowrie shells. Also a flintlock rifle with a light wooden butt and handle, with a steel mechanism and barrel.

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Two manuscript pages with tables. The tables are divided into columns headed Name, Colour, Age, African or Creole and Remarks. Among the names is a woman named Quasheba. The remarks column notes some of the people's mother.

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Powis Gateway. A gateway composed of a grey granite masonry arch between two medieval style towers with masonry on the lower portion and beige stucco on the rest. The towers have conical roofs with weather vanes in the shape of a crescent moon on its back.

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A plan of the City of Aberdeen with all the inclosures surrounding the town to the adjacent country, from a survey taken 1789.

Old printed map of Aberdeen, showing the area by the harbour. A street named Virginia Street runs behind warehouses parallel to the water, and a building labelled Shugarey is prominent.

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Cairness House viewed from the south

A large, symmetrical neoclassical mansion with columns supporting the roof of the porch.

Cairness House, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire, south front. A red and white border has been added to the original photo.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

"Combat et prise de la Crête-à-Pierrot"

Printed depiction of a battle. Black soldiers fight white soldiers. Both sides wield rifles with bayonets and swords, and wear blue swallowtail coats, white shirts and trousers. The white soldiers wear bicorne hats and white stockings and shoes, whereas the Black soldiers are mostly barefooted and wear the hats of agricultural workers.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

3/4 portrait of Dr James Beattie, wearing doctorate gown, 'Essay on Truth' under left arm. Truth as an Angel holding balance plunging Scepticism, Sophistry, Infidelity (Voltaire, Hume, Gibbon) into darkness. Painted 1773 in London during Beattie's…

Tags: Abolition, James Beattie, LoS Here, Slavery

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Protest placards. One bears the words: ' Aberdeen's MP 1792-1801 "sold about as many black men as there are white in his native city" The granite city is not innocent '. The other says ' "Nae pride fir som o'eis withoot liberation fir ah o'eis" - Marsha P. Johnson (Doric translation) '.

Manuscript letter. This page lists enslaved people purchased to work on Georgia Estate.

Trade guns. A large rifle, almost two metres long, with a dark wooden body and steel barrel and mechanism. The butt is coated in a fibrous material and is decorated with strings of cowrie shells. Also a flintlock rifle with a light wooden butt and handle, with a steel mechanism and barrel.

Two manuscript pages with tables. The tables are divided into columns headed Name, Colour, Age, African or Creole and Remarks. Among the names is a woman named Quasheba. The remarks column notes some of the people's mother.

Powis Gateway. A gateway composed of a grey granite masonry arch between two medieval style towers with masonry on the lower portion and beige stucco on the rest. The towers have conical roofs with weather vanes in the shape of a crescent moon on its back.

A plan of the City of Aberdeen with all the inclosures surrounding the town to the adjacent country, from a survey taken 1789.

Cairness House viewed from the south

"Combat et prise de la Crête-à-Pierrot"

The Morse and Cator Family

Triumph of Truth