On Wednesday, I traveled to West India Quay to go to the Museum In Docklands. I wanted to check out the exhibition entitled: London, Sugar and Slavery. It was a really nice exhibitiion showcasing slavery through a different continent. It was really interesting seeing how the UK also profitted from it. The first thing I saw when I entered London, Sugar and Slavery Exhibition was some chains with a neck cuff. They weren’t heavy but they had to be uncomfortable as hell. Can you just imagine walking with chains around your neck and it’s not because you’re a criminal?
Worn by Sam Sharpe
I also saw a picture of Sarah Forbes Bonnato, who I had read about last year. She was an African princess whose family had been slaughtered in some tribal war. She too would have been killed had she not been rescued by a Captain Frederick Forbes from England. She was only 8 years old. Just a baby. She was identified as a princess by the tribal markings on her face. Queen Victoria (of England) felt a kinship with Sarah and she became her god-mother. Though she visited the queen often, she became the adopted daughter of Captain Forbes and his wife.
Sarah ForbesBonnato
There was alot of other things I saw. From weapons of punishment to bill of sale books. Here are the pictures.
Anti-Apprenticeship Banner, about 1833
List of negros and stocks, Thomas Mills Plantation, St Kitts, 1750 & 1752
Punishment Collar, about 1880 and Whip, about 1800
Dido Elizabeth Belle (1763-1804)
Dido was the daughter of a naval officier and an ensalved African woman. She was raised by her great uncle, the Earl of Mansfield at Kenswood House, Hampstead, along with her cousin Elizabeth (right). Dido, however, was never treated as a equal member of the family.
