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Sailors Insurance Fund minutes, regarding John Fitzgerald, from the slave ship Africa , who lost his sight on voyage from Calabar to Jamaica due to a Distemper then raging among the slaves.

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.

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