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.[1]
Liverpool members
editFounding members
editThe following list of 101 names was published on 24 June 1752.[2] Several were MPs for Liverpool at some stage in their lives.
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References
edit- ^ Williams, Gomer (2004). History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque : with an account of the Liverpool slave trade, 1744-1812. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2745-1.
- ^ Elizabeth Donnan (1931). Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America /. Washington, D.C. hdl:2027/pst.000009721524.