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Collection: Legacies of Slavery

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Trade gun. 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.

Tags: LoS Enslavement

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.

Tags: LoS Enslavement

Transatlantic slavery and Aberdeen

Tags: LoS page asset

Triumph of Truth

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