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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.
A Liverpool Slave Ship by William Jackson (c.1770–c.1803). Liverpool, a port city in north-west England, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade.The trade developed in the eighteenth century, as Liverpool slave traders were able to supply fabric from Manchester to the Caribbean islands at very competitive prices.
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".
Rioting broke out in Liverpool at the end of August 1775, when sailors employed in the Atlantic trade, then in a slump, objected to a cut in wages. [16] In the aftermath, Parr supplied guns, ammunition and swords to the Liverpool corporation. [17] The "tower gun" was a staple trade item at Old Calabar and generally in West Africa.
The Liverpool-born politician William Roscoe was member for Liverpool in 1806–1807, and was able to vote for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. [20] This legislation imposed fines that did little to deter slave trade participants; 29 avowed slaving voyages left Liverpool in 1808, but none in 1809, two in 1810, and two more in 1811.
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.
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She left Liverpool on 26 August 1786 and left Calabar after 281 days. [8] (However, the same source states that Tarleton and Fairweather left Liverpool on 25 December 1786, [14] which is more consistent with having arrived in Liverpool in September, and is also consistent with the data in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. [15])