The papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797
Part 3 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. William Davenport was a Liverpool merchant and British slave trader. From the late 1740s till the early 1790s, he invested regularly in the African slave trade and was a partner in slaving ventures with other leading merchant Liverpool families. These papers from Keele University Library are accompanied by a to the collection by Professor David Richardson, Hull University. |