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Merchant's Wharf

A modern housing development is now built on the site of Sydenham Teast's shipyards. Teast built a number of ships for the African trade and in 1786 refitted the slaver The Hector (a slaver was a ship that carried slaves for sale).

The above  painting shows the same place in 1826, when it was a busy shipyard. Ships for the slave trade were built here and repairs took place in other parts of the docks.

Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Bristol: Ethnic Monorities and the City 1000-2001' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-477-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series

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