In Greater Manchester
- How money from slavery made Greater Manchester
- The importance of cotton in north west England
- The Lancashire cotton famine
- Smoking, drinking and the British sweet tooth
- Black presence in Britain and north west England
- Resistance and campaigns for abolition
- The bicentenary of British abolition
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Smoking, drinking and the British sweet tooth
Coffee pot
Probably made in Stoke-on-Trent, 1780-1810
Creamware, with overglaze printed decoration
Object number 3266
Bequeathed by Sam Howard
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This coffee pot is decorated with a printed design probably depicting a colonial scene. The expansion of coffee production on plantations worked by enslaved Africans during the 1800s and 1900s, turned this fashionable drink into an everyday commodity. Cheap tea and coffee wares, such as this creamware coffee pot, became one of Britain's most successful exports, sent all over the world by manufacturers such as Josiah Wedgwood.
During this period Brazil became the largest and most successful producer of coffee in the world. It was also the last country to abolish the institution of slavery, in 1888.
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