Slave trade records from Liverpool, 1754-1792.

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

Liverpool Record Office.

Series:

British records relating to America in microform

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--England--Liverpool--History--18th century--Sources.

Slave trade.

Slave traders--England--Liverpool--18th century--Sources.

Slave traders.

Liverpool (England)--Economic conditions--18th century--Sources.

Liverpool (England).

Slave trade--Europe--History--18th century--Sources.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Sources.

Great Britain.

Liverpool Record Office.

British colonies.

Economic history.

America.

England--Liverpool.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

British Online Archives

Place of Publication:

Wakefield : Microform Academic Publishers, 2007.

Summary:

The documents reproduced in this publication relate to the triangular slave trade between Britain, Africa and the Americas during the eighteenth century. The originals are housed in Liverpool Cetral Library. The items include correspondence, accounts, invoices, sales records, ship's logbooks, sailing instructions to the master of a vessel, and and contemporary statistics on the slave trade.

Contents:

Reel 1. Tuohy Papers (380 TUO/1-380 TUO/6)

reel 2. Case & Southworth Records (380 MD 33-380 MD 36)

reel 3. Thomas Leyland Records (387 MD 40-387 MD 59)

reel 4. Copy letters from John Newton to Rev. Dr. Jennings ; Letter Book, etc. of Robert Bostock ; Norris Papers ; John Tomlinson's Account Current with John Knight ; Ships' logs of H.M.S. Agamemnon ; Log of the Brig Ranger ; Account of the sale of slaves from the Brig Mars ; Holt & Gregson Papers (920 MD 409-[942 HOL 10).

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on Feb. 21, 2023).

These primary sources preserved at the Liverpool Record Office constitute one of the best collections in British archives of private merchants' papers relating to the transatlantic slave trade. Liverpool was the leading slave trading port in the world in the eighteenth century when these documents were compiled. Each individual item has a particular focus, but all illuminate the human and financial aspects of the slave trade. The material includes correspondence with ship captains and Caribbean agents about the acquisition of Africans and their sale; statistics on the Liverpool slave trade; sales accounts of the lots of Africans disembarked in the Americas, often with the names of purchasers and prices; information on dealings with diverse African groups along the coast of West Africa; and details of payments for slave sales. The account books of ships' voyages include material on the outfitting of vessels and the cargoes of goods exported to Africa. Among the items included in this collection are records of the wealthy merchant and banker, Thomas Leyland, who was three times Mayor of Liverpool, and letters by the slave trade captain, John Newton, who later became a clergyman, the composer of the hymn 'Amazing Grace', and a prominent abolitionist. These documents are drawn from papers held at the Liverpool Record Office.

Previous title "Records relating to the slave trade at the Liverpool Record Office"

ISBN:

9781851171477

1851171479

OCLC:

1229685786

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.