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Meeting opposing slave trade abolition
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Minutes of a Committee meeting, 15th April 1789.
The Committee set up to oppose the abolition of the slave trade proposed three petitions to Parliament. One was from the West India merchants, planters, sugar bakers, annuitants and creditors. One was from African merchants and one was from manufacturers and others.
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: 15th April 1789
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Meeting opposing slave trade abolition
Description:
Minutes of a Committee meeting, 15th April 1789.
The Committee set up to oppose the abolition of the slave trade proposed three petitions to Parliament. One was from the West India merchants, planters, sugar bakers, annuitants and creditors. One was from African merchants and one was from manufacturers and others.
Evan Baillie’s name appears on the list of attendees at the meeting.
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: 15th April 1789
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Detail from plantation sale notice
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London Gazette , January – March 1834.
Detail from the notice of the sale of L’Union and Alliance sugar plantations in British Guiana, with joint gang of 146 slaves, property of Robert Patterson, deceased.
Date: Mar 4 1834
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Meeting opposing slave trade abolition
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Minutes of a meeting held at the Merchants Hall, Bristol, 13th April 1789.
Record of a meeting held to consider the steps to be taken to oppose the threat of the abolition of the slave trade. A committee was set up to liase with the Society of Merchant Venturers and the Committee of London Merchants, to prepare petitions, encouraging all merchants to support them and to ask for support from MPs.
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: 13th April 1789
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Exports from Britain to Africa
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The Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa , part 2.
Continuation of Appendix 36. Table of exports from African states to England, 1827 – 1841, showing part of the table of exports from Britain to Africa.
Date: 1827 - 1841
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Exports, Africa to England
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The Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa , part 2.
Appendix 36. Table of exports from African states to England, 1827 – 1841, showing the huge increase in palm oil.
Date: 1827 - 1841
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List of ships returning to Bristol
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Page 2 from the Accounts book of The Sailors’ Hospital; The Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
1772 – 1773. Entry numbers 177 – 222. (230 ships in total)
Many of the ships listed here are returning from American ports such as Georgia, Newfoundland, Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Carolina. Most would have been trading manufactured goods direct to the Americas, not slaves via Africa.
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: 1772 - 1773
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List showing wars affecting trade
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Page 3 from the Accounts book of The Sailors’ Hospital; The Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
1778 – 1779. Entry numbers 1 – 45. (145 ships in total).
The American War of Independence and war with France, Spain and Holland affected trade. Only 2 of the 145 ships in 1778 – 1779 went to the USA, and none to France. The majority are going to the Caribbean islands of English and Irish ports.
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: 1778 - 1779
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Ships returning to Bristol with hardwood
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Page 4 from the Accounts book of The Sailors’ Hospital; The Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
1784 – 1785. Entry numbers 79 – 117.(171 ships in total).
On this page, 2 ships are listed from Africa: probably wood ships, going to Africa for hardwood. A slave ship would have returned from somewhere in the Americas.
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: 1784 - 1785
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List of ships returning to Bristol
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Page 1 from the Accounts book of The Sailors’ Hospital; The Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
1748 – 1749. Entry numbers 1 – 58. (211 ships in total).
Every merchant sailor contributed a small amount per voyage towards an insurance fund, administered in Bristol by the Society of Merchant Venturers. This page lists a number of ships coming back from Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Virginia, St Kitts and Tortola, as well as from European, English and Irish ports.
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: 1748 - 1749
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