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SLAVE TRADE Ledger comprising trading accounts of William Davenport & Co of Liverpool for voyages of the company's slave ships Ann, Bee, Hector, Liverpool Hero and Swift on voyages between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone and the West Indies undertaken between 1777 and 1784, Liverpool, 1777-1784
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'SALES OF FOUR HUNDRED & EIGHTEEN SLAVES IMPORTED IN THE SHIP LIVERPOOL HERO, JOHN COOPER MASTER, FROM OLD CALABAR' – slaving accounts of William Davenport & Co of Liverpool. Davenport has been described as 'one of the largest slaving merchants of his generation, and one of the wealthiest Guinea merchants in Liverpool's history' (Nicholas James Radburn, 'William Davenport, the Slave Trade, and Merchant Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool', online MA thesis, Victoria University of Wellington). A large part of the Davenport company papers are held at the Raymond Richards Collection at Keele University Library, formerly as part of the Bromley Davenport Muniments, John Rylands Library; another group came to light recently and were acquired in 2006 by Merseyside Maritime Museum. See illustration on preceding page.

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