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BRITISH GUIANA/ENGLAND, Waterloo Estate/Liverpool, John Bolton, 1835, a white metal medal...
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BRITISH GUIANA/ENGLAND, Waterloo Estate/Liverpool, John Bolton, 1835, a white metal medal by T. Halliday, bust left encircled by wreath, rev. a reward for good behaviour within oak-wreath, 53mm, 49.20g (BDM II, 390). About extremely fine, very rare £400-£500
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John Bolton (1756-1837), b. Ulverston, merchant, slave trader and owner, arrived in St Vincent as an apprentice in 1773, thence to St Lucia in 1778 and Barbados in 1779, returning to Liverpool in 1782 with capital accumulated in the slave-economy as a merchant. He established himself as a large-scale Liverpool slave-trader who shipped thousands of captive Africans in the last years of the British slave trade. In 1803 he issued personal medals to the NCOs of the company of 800 volunteers he had raised at his own expense in Liverpool during the wars against Napoleonic France. Bolton was awarded over £15,000 for the 289 enslaved people on his Waterloo Estate in British Guiana. In his later years he lived on his estate at Storrs, Westmorland.
Medals awarded ‘for good conduct’ to people on Caribbean estates illustrate new systems of governance put in place by slave owners in the period of ‘amelioration’ of slavery that followed the passing of ‘Canning’s Resolutions’ by the British Parliament in 1823, and that continued into the period of apprenticeship after the Abolition Act of 1833.
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John Bolton (1756-1837), b. Ulverston, merchant, slave trader and owner, arrived in St Vincent as an apprentice in 1773, thence to St Lucia in 1778 and Barbados in 1779, returning to Liverpool in 1782 with capital accumulated in the slave-economy as a merchant. He established himself as a large-scale Liverpool slave-trader who shipped thousands of captive Africans in the last years of the British slave trade. In 1803 he issued personal medals to the NCOs of the company of 800 volunteers he had raised at his own expense in Liverpool during the wars against Napoleonic France. Bolton was awarded over £15,000 for the 289 enslaved people on his Waterloo Estate in British Guiana. In his later years he lived on his estate at Storrs, Westmorland.
Medals awarded ‘for good conduct’ to people on Caribbean estates illustrate new systems of governance put in place by slave owners in the period of ‘amelioration’ of slavery that followed the passing of ‘Canning’s Resolutions’ by the British Parliament in 1823, and that continued into the period of apprenticeship after the Abolition Act of 1833.
Sold with extensive background material
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BRITISH GUIANA/ENGLAND, Waterloo Estate/Liverpool, John Bolton, 1835, a white metal medal by T. Halliday, bust left encircled by wreath, rev. a reward for good behaviour within oak-wreath, 53mm, 49.20g (BDM II, 390). About extremely fine, very rare £400-£500
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John Bolton (1756-1837), b. Ulverston, merchant, slave trader and owner, arrived in St Vincent as an apprentice in 1773, thence to St Lucia in 1778 and Barbados in 1779, returning to Liverpool in 1782 with capital accumulated in the slave-economy as a merchant. He established himself as a large-scale Liverpool slave-trader who shipped thousands of captive Africans in the last years of the British slave trade. In 1803 he issued personal medals to the NCOs of the company of 800 volunteers he had raised at his own expense in Liverpool during the wars against Napoleonic France. Bolton was awarded over £15,000 for the 289 enslaved people on his Waterloo Estate in British Guiana. In his later years he lived on his estate at Storrs, Westmorland.
Medals awarded ‘for good conduct’ to people on Caribbean estates illustrate new systems of governance put in place by slave owners in the period of ‘amelioration’ of slavery that followed the passing of ‘Canning’s Resolutions’ by the British Parliament in 1823, and that continued into the period of apprenticeship after the Abolition Act of 1833.
Sold with extensive background material
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John Bolton (1756-1837), b. Ulverston, merchant, slave trader and owner, arrived in St Vincent as an apprentice in 1773, thence to St Lucia in 1778 and Barbados in 1779, returning to Liverpool in 1782 with capital accumulated in the slave-economy as a merchant. He established himself as a large-scale Liverpool slave-trader who shipped thousands of captive Africans in the last years of the British slave trade. In 1803 he issued personal medals to the NCOs of the company of 800 volunteers he had raised at his own expense in Liverpool during the wars against Napoleonic France. Bolton was awarded over £15,000 for the 289 enslaved people on his Waterloo Estate in British Guiana. In his later years he lived on his estate at Storrs, Westmorland.
Medals awarded ‘for good conduct’ to people on Caribbean estates illustrate new systems of governance put in place by slave owners in the period of ‘amelioration’ of slavery that followed the passing of ‘Canning’s Resolutions’ by the British Parliament in 1823, and that continued into the period of apprenticeship after the Abolition Act of 1833.
Sold with extensive background material
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