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Ships’ muster rolls from 1767 – 1768; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 26.

Muster roll for the ship, the Black Prince , from Bristol to Africa and Antigua, 1764.
This was the 8th of 10 slaving voyages for the Black Prince . On this voyage, 300 slaves were bought on the Gold Coast. It is not known how many survived the voyage to Antigua to be sold.

The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).

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: 1764

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