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Betsey was launched in 1790 at Liverpool as a slave ship.She made six complete voyages in the triangular trade in enslaved people. On her second such voyage she, together with five other slave ships, bombarded Calabar for more than three hours to force the local native traders to lower the prices they were charging for captives.
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]
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.
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.
Two British slave ships off the Danish Fort Christiansborg [1]. Thomas Parr (1769–1847) was a member of an extended family of Liverpool merchants, developing his business as an English slave trader who profited from the Atlantic slave trade [2] to establish himself as "‘a merchant of great eminence in Liverpool".
Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. UK: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-84631-066-9. Schwarz, Suzanne (2008). Slave Captain - The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Liverpool University Press. Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W.
Parr was built in Liverpool and named for owners Thomas and John Parr, members of an eminent local slave-trading family. She was built to accommodate seven hundred captives. [ 6 ] Parr was not only the largest Liverpool slave ship, but at 566 tons (bm), the largest vessel in the entire British trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved people.
Peter Baker (1731–1796) was a privateer, shipbuilder, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and notable English slave trader. [1] [2] He formed the Liverpool shipbuilding company Baker and Dawson with his son-in-law John Dawson. Baker was a figure of political importance in Liverpool history at a time when Liverpool was the foremost slave trading hub of ...