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The Morse and Cator Family

Oil painting of two white men and two white women wearing 18th century dress, in classical style surroundings. One man plays a cello, the two women play a duet on a piano, and the other man leans on the piano.

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"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.

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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.

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Manuscript document

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Manuscript letter

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Front of a letter addressed to Charles Gordon Esq., Cairness near Fraserburgh. The letter has ink postage stamps on it and a red wax seal.

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Manuscript letter

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Manuscript letter

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Pages in a manuscript journal. The author describes the work of a special magistrate in the emancipation period, and there is also a printed table fixed into the journal with wax. The table is titled: "TABLE of the relative amount of compensation awarded for the value of SLAVES, in the under-mentioned Colonies, as appropriated by the Commissioners, under Act 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 73."

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Pages of a manuscript journal with illustrations of a crab, a a Black person in profile wearing a fur knotted around their head, a saddled horse, a Black person wearing a shirt, earrings and a necklace, and Black person with a shirt and loincloth carrying a small basket on a rod over their shoulder.

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