Slavery
Before it was eventually abolished in the nineteenth century, the slave trade formed an important part of the British and European economy. Trade in enslaved Africans and the goods they produced on American plantations made fortunes for many of those who invested, and financed the development of many major British cities.
Nottinghamshire is not obviously synonymous with the slave trade in comparison to other parts of the country. Yet there were still many links between Nottinghamshire people and slavery. The documents in this part of the exhibition illustrate some of these connections.
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