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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.
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 captives. She arrived at ...
Christopher (Liverpool slave ship) Clarendon (1804 ship) Columbus (1793 ship) Commerce (1800 ship) D. Dart (1787 ship) Dart (1799 ship) Dick (1798 ship) Diligence ...
The only slave traders based in the Port of Liverpool with more recorded voyages were William Boats with 157 and William Davenport with 155. [3] Gregson's vessels are recorded as having carried 58,201 Africans, of whom 9,148 died on board. [4] Gregson plied the Atlantic slave trade route. His ships left the Port of Liverpool loaded with goods ...
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.
John Dawson (died 1812) was a Liverpool slave trader and captain. [1] Between 1783 and 1792, Dawson and his business partner Peter Baker were the largest slave traders in Great Britain. [ 2 ]
A slave ship showing typical arrangement of slaves. 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 ...