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By 1750 Liverpool was the pre-eminent slave trading port in Great Britain. Thereafter Liverpool's control of the industry continued to grow. [6] In the period between 1793 and 1807, when the slave trade was abolished, Liverpool accounted for 84.7% of all slave voyages, with London accounting for 12% and Bristol 3.3%. [7]
The African Company of Merchants was established by Act of Parliament as a successor organisation to the Royal African Company in 1752. Provision was made for interested citizens to join the corporation in three cities: at foundation there were 135 members in London,157 in Bristol and 101 in Liverpool, which nevertheless had the most extensive participation in slave trade.
This is a list of slave ships. These were ships used to carry enslaved people, mainly in the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and the 19th centuries. Abby was of 98 tons (bm). Captain Murdock Murchy sailed from Liverpool on 19 September 1795. He sailed from Africa on 15 May 1796. The French captured Abby in 1796, after she had embarked her ...
A. Accomplished Quaker (1795 ship) Active (1781 ship) Active (1789 ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1796 ship) Adventure (1799 ship) Adventure (1802 ship) Æolus (1787 ship)
In 1790, Dawson owned 19 slave ships, with an average value of £10,000 [3] (about £1.5 million today). By the early 1790s, the partners' vessels had completed over 100 voyages. Baker & Dawson became one of the biggest slave-trading partnerships in late 18th-century Liverpool. [citation needed]
Thomas Parke (1729/30 – 1819) was a Liverpool slave trader, merchant, banker and privateer. [1] [2] He was part of the complex network of business interests and finance behind the African and Atlantic slave trade of the later 18th century.
She had left Liverpool with 43 crew members and had suffered four crew deaths on her voyage. [27] (Although the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database shows Captain Thomas Livesley as having replaced Captain Thomas Tobin at some point, Lloyd's List ' s ship arrival and departure data shows Captain Tobin throughout the voyage.)
Mosley Hill (or Mosely Hill, or Moseley Hill, or Mossley Hill), was launched in 1782 at Liverpool as a slave ship.Between 1782 and 1790 she made eight complete voyages in the triangular trade in enslaved people.