London sugar and slavery ship list

Estate papers and business records of sugar plantations in the Caribbean provide useful information about the management of the business. The Chisholme, Ellice, Houston and Melville Papers contain good examples. There are full references to these collections in the thematic list on slavery available in the Special Collections Reading Room. Slave ships ranged in size from the ten-ton Hesketh, which sailed out of Liverpool and delivered slaves to Saint Kitts in 1761, to the 566-ton Parr, another Liverpool ship that sailed in the 1790s. Ships comparable in size to the Hesketh were designed to carry as few as six pleasure passengers; refitted as a slaver, the Hesketh transported a crew plus thirty Africans. Slavery was once thought of as an activity largely limited to the ports from which the ships of the triangular trade set sail; Bristol, London, Liverpool and Glasgow.

9 Nov 2007 This simple list speaks volumes: the ships listed from a single decade fill the wall, giving the visitor an immediate sense of the scale of the trade. In  15 Nov 2007 A new permanent slavery exhibition has opened to the public at the Museum in Docklands but not without a little controversy, writes Kurt  It is the location of the acclaimed London, Sugar, and Slavery Gallery, the only permanent gallery to deal with London's involvement in both slavery and the  15 Jun 2014 In the 1710s and '20s alone, British ships carried 200,000 slaves across the Atlantic. permanent exhibition on the slave trade, called “London, Sugar & Slavery. wall with a chart that lists the ships that sailed from London. Gaining political momentum: the sugar boycott and the 1792 Bill. 13 of slaves were packed aboard slave ships to maximise profit. of their own names. See S.I. Martin, Britain's Slave Trade, Channel 4 Books, London, 1999, page 23. 8 Jan 2020 Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally, 1764-1765 (Brown University) distilled into rum and shipped to Africa to produce more slaves, more sugar, and more rum. Legacies of British Slave Ownership (University College - London). 29 Jan 2020 Plans of a ship for transporting slaves, engraving, 1790. Although these events affected the ships' crews as well as the enslaved, they were 

The trade in enslaved Africans and sugar was nicknamed the Triangular Trade. Slave ships travelled across the Atlantic in a triangle between Britain, west Africa  

17 Apr 2012 The slave ship was the means by which nearly 12.5 million enslaved he sold his slaves and purchased or loaded goods such as sugar, rum,  17 Mar 2018 In October 1699, one such ship – the Liverpool Merchant – left the city's docks. to the ISM can turn over to reveal the slavers they take their names from. as examined in the museum's 'London, Sugar and Slavery' gallery. The importation of sugar, coffee, cacao and cotton created new industries and an exhibition in the Museum of London Docklands on “London, sugar & slavery”, as benefactors of cities, for instance with statues, street and institution names. For instance, a voyage of a slave ship is described from the perspective of a  13 Aug 2015 Letters discussing the value and sale of slaves in the 18th century, which William Philip Perrin, who ran a sugar plantation near Kingston, Jamaica. The note, described as “a list of Mr John Broomfield's negroes, with their age plan of a typical slave ship used to support the campaign to abolish slavery. 29 Apr 2019 1641: Eastern Caribbean sugar exports begin. She was forced aboard a slave ship, the San Juan Bautista, in Luanda, then a bustling 

8 Jan 2019 Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of historical thriller Blood & Sugar, explores Now a part of London, Deptford was then a port five miles downriver from forget the horrific image of the slave ship, 'Brookes', packed with bodies? wealthiest slave merchants, even in street names such as 'Blackboy Hill'.

Slavery was once thought of as an activity largely limited to the ports from which the ships of the triangular trade set sail; Bristol, London, Liverpool and Glasgow.

17 Mar 2018 In October 1699, one such ship – the Liverpool Merchant – left the city's docks. to the ISM can turn over to reveal the slavers they take their names from. as examined in the museum's 'London, Sugar and Slavery' gallery.

Slavery? 1858 engraving of enslaved people working in the sugar cane fields of Child Labor Coalition that lists products most commonly produced using child Published in London in 1823, Clark's drawing shows a group of men and of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had. Papers of Scottish planters and sugar merchants; Information about enslaved people working in Scotland; First-hand accounts of the voyages of slave ships; Printed There are full references to these collections in the thematic list on slavery life in 'Eliza Wigham: a brief memorial' (London, 1901 [Shelfmark: 5.2591(8)]  8 Jan 2019 Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of historical thriller Blood & Sugar, explores Now a part of London, Deptford was then a port five miles downriver from forget the horrific image of the slave ship, 'Brookes', packed with bodies? wealthiest slave merchants, even in street names such as 'Blackboy Hill'. 17 Apr 2012 The slave ship was the means by which nearly 12.5 million enslaved he sold his slaves and purchased or loaded goods such as sugar, rum,  17 Mar 2018 In October 1699, one such ship – the Liverpool Merchant – left the city's docks. to the ISM can turn over to reveal the slavers they take their names from. as examined in the museum's 'London, Sugar and Slavery' gallery. The importation of sugar, coffee, cacao and cotton created new industries and an exhibition in the Museum of London Docklands on “London, sugar & slavery”, as benefactors of cities, for instance with statues, street and institution names. For instance, a voyage of a slave ship is described from the perspective of a 

Estate papers and business records of sugar plantations in the Caribbean provide useful information about the management of the business. The Chisholme, Ellice, Houston and Melville Papers contain good examples. There are full references to these collections in the thematic list on slavery available in the Special Collections Reading Room.

29 Aug 2019 It is 400 years since slaves were brought to what is now the United Enslaved people were brought to work on the cotton, sugar and To raise the money to start many future plantation owners turned to capital markets in London - selling a list of well-known US financial firms that benefited from the slave  London, Sugar & Slavery. 1600 – today. See the slave ships that set sail from London. See the names, captains, owners and destinations of the ships that sailed from London to trade in enslaved Africans - whose names were not been recorded. Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African, 1782. The legacy of the Atlantic slave trade is long, and it casts a shadow to this day. The Museum of London Docklands is surrounded by buildings, streets and statues built with the profits of slavery, in many cases commemorating the owners and traders of enslaved people. Find out about London's slave trade at and sold to plantation owners in America and the Caribbean for sugar, tobacco, rum, rice, cotton and tea, all of which were shipped back to London London, Sugar and Slavery is Museum in Docklands’ new permanent gallery exploring the capital's dark past – and its role in the transatlantic slave trade. Sara Wajid looks at Museum in Docklands’ new gallery exploring London’s dark past – and its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

The new gallery - called London, Sugar & Slavery - reveals how London's listing on this website or visit the Museum's website (opens in a new window).