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7https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/131773173/2/1/7?RECORD&DATABASE=COLLECTIONS_OPAC2007.1.1ManillaManilla7https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/131773173/2/1/7/WEB_UNION_DET_REP?RECORD&DATABASE=SELECTION_LISTJosiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian HistoryManilla bracelet currency. Copper or brass rod with flared ends and bent into the shape of a bracelet. This particular manilla is believed to be of early British type.Manillas were used as the main currency in Western Africa during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, beginning in the 15th century. Value depended upon size, material, decoration and the amount the manilla impeded movement. Consequently the price of a slave, relative to manillas, varied accordingly. Manillas were worn as bracelets, anklets, arm-bands, rings, necklaces and nose rings to display family wealth.This manilla is reported to have been found in the sunken ship, S.S. Douro, which sailed from Liverpool and sank on passage to West Africa in 1843, near Round Rock Western Isles, Scilly. The wreck of the Douro contained thousands of British-manufactured manilla, likely intended as payment for slaves.6cm1cm100.00g8: Communication ArtifactsExchange MediaMoneyGift of Tom and Mary C. Headimagehttps://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/M3IMAGE/CM_UTCH_2007_1_1.jpgCulturalUncle Tom's Cabin Historic Siteca. 1843https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/131773173/2/1?ADDSELECTION&COOKIE=BOOKMARK&DBNAME=SELECTION_LIST
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