Record 42085 from 1855
Summary
This record provides information on the sender of the Bristol dolls signed by Maria Ahmuty's grand-daughter.
Record Excerpt
"Verso This Black woman gave herself the surname of ‘Ahmuty’, called the girl she sent to Grandmama ‘Maria Ahmuty’ & in one of her last letters written to speaks of the comfort her children are to her, working for her in her old age, she not then having the strength to work for herself. The black Maria was carefully sent back in Recto the ship in which her Mother had sent her to England & under the same Captain. I think Grandmama was one or two years, not longer, in the West Indies when her husband died & she returned with her two little girls, & one little son to live with her Mother Mrs Anderson in England. M.E.M. 1855"
Source: Copy of two notes by Maria Elizabeth Michell. Document enclosed with Bristol Museums & Art Gallery and Bristol Archives, 2007/038/001, 2007/038/002 and 2007/038/003
Item Metadata
Primary Textile Types: No primary textile types available.
Secondary Textile Types: No secondary textile types available.
Primary Subjects: Rebecca Magg
Secondary Subjects: Maria Ahmuty
Keywords: Enslavement, Cultural References
Circulation: Consumption
Source type: Primary Source (Archival): Manuscript
Year: 1855
Reference: Copy of two notes by Maria Elizabeth Michell. Document enclosed with Bristol Museums & Art Gallery and Bristol Archives, 2007/038/001, 2007/038/002 and 2007/038/003
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