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British slave traders (5 C, 3 P) W. Welsh slave owners (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "British slave owners" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of ...
William Davenport (slave trader) William Davenport (8 October 1725 – 1794) was a British slave trader who was, by the number of ships disembarked, the single most prolific slave trader from the Port of Liverpool. [1] He took part in 163 slaving voyages and his slave ships carried almost 40,000 enslaved Africans.
John Newton (/ ˈnjuːtən /; 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725 – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy (after forced recruitment) and was himself enslaved for a time in West ...
Richard Hawkins (1562–1622) Signature. Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader. Hawkins pioneered, and was an early promoter of, English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. He is considered to be the first English merchant ...
William James was one of the biggest slave traders of his era. [4] He operated out of the Port of Liverpool and was well known amongst the sailors, ship builders and the many tradespeople working at the docks. In August 1775 a large scale sailors' riot broke out in Liverpool. A number of sailors had been employed to fit out the rigging for a ...
Occupation. Merchant. Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was an English merchant, slave trader, philanthropist, and Tory Member of Parliament. Colston followed his father in the family business becoming a sea merchant, initially trading in wine, fruits and textiles, mainly in Spain, Portugal and other European ports.
Anglicanism. Feast. 30 July. William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire (1784–1812).
He served as a slave ship Captain and was resident slave trader who operated in the Sierra Leone region of West Africa. [2] He did much of his slave trading at Bunce Island, a British slave castle in the Sierra Leone River, owned at that time by the Company of John & Alexander Anderson, based in London. [2] He was involved in at least eleven ...