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Custom house accounts for wharfage payments, 1730.
James Laroche, a slave trader, imported one bale of East India goods, that is Indian cotton cloths. Indian textiles made up a large part of any trade cargo for a slaving voyage.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1730

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