We visit a slave owner's house to explore what life in Bristol in the 18th century looked like from el frances samana Watch Video
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Description: Located on 7 Great George Road, The Georgian House Museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790.<br/><br/>The house was built in 1790 for John Penney, a West India sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and designed by Bristol architect, William Paty.<br/><br/>The grade II listed building was also home to the freed slave Frances Coker who was a maid and Pinney's slave, Pero, after whom Pero's Bridge at Bristol Harbour is named.<br/><br/>Scenes for the \
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