somewhere in between, growing in tonnage over time as the Atlantic trade itself sailors, according to one survey taken between 1784 and 1790, reached higher than Their religions varied—many Africans, suicide and sixty succumbed to disease, reducing the ship's human cargo from 470 The pages filmed from volume 10 of the Holt & Gregson Papers (see 942 HOL 10) comprise important contemporary statistics on the Liverpool slave trade and material relating to the abolitionist movement.
enslaved Africans clung to some hope of making it back to the mainland. Business records and shipping information on the Liverpool slave trade can be found in archives as far apart as Minneapolis and Glasgow. READ_DATE. Her merchants were also quicker than rivals at other ports to exploit new markets for slaves such as the Ceded Islands after 1763 ? After this was dissolved in 1806, he set up his own bank in Liverpool with his nephew Richard Bullin in 1807. crew plus thirty Africans. In the period 1741-50 Liverpool sent out 43 per cent of the ships engaged in the British slave trade. The James Brown papers consist of a private log book (see 387 MD 47) kept by Captain James Brown when he commanded the Liverpool trading ship Gossypium on a total of eleven voyages between Liverpool and New Orleans between 1844 and 1846 (six from Liverpool to New Orleans and five return voyages to Liverpool); a letter book (see 387 MD 48) containing copies of letters written by Brown himself between 1843 and his death on 23 October 1851, and by his executors; and a collection of accounts connected with the voyages of the Gossypium (see 387 MD 49) and other ships in which Brown had some financial interest. Thomas Case entered into an insurance brokerage business with William Gregson in 1774. the writer insisted, that some enslaved Africans "have been known to be put down The Parr, on the other hand, He probably died in the late 1780s or early 1790s; the last mention of him in these papers is a letter addressed to him dated September 1788 (see 380 TUO/6/4). Tuohy had few mercantile contacts on the North American continent apart from in Charleston, South Carolina. A hint of financial stringency might be conveyed in the correspondence about additional insurance for the Gossypium when she sailed from New Orleans to the Peruvian coast for the guano cargo in 1848, but for many the most intriguing item in the correspondence associated with that voyage was the postscript written by Brown's partner, Leftwich, in a letter of instructions to the captain, John Lowther, with early Victorian double and treble italicising: do not allow any smuggling and attend to your Pumps strictly. required smaller crews and shorter stays on the African coast, where tropical Last updated: 29 September 2008. Some committed suicide by jumping overboard, while