Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754-1792 - Volumes
Volumes
5 volumes in Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754-1792
The Case and Southworth records
The Case and Southworth records (380 MD 33-36) cover the years from 1754 to 1769. They are the surviving commercial manuscripts of a Liverpool merchant firm with a branch house in Kingston, Jamaica. Thomas Case was listed in the Liverpool trade directory for 1766 as a merchant in Water Street. He owned a number of ships, became a member of the African Company of Liverpool, and held shares in eighteen... Read more →
The Thomas Leyland records
Thomas Leyland (c.1752-1827) was a merchant, banker, millionaire and three times Mayor of Liverpool. In 1766 he won a lottery prize of £20,000, which he used to build up his business affairs. He was involved in various trading partnerships. He built up much of his mercantile fortune from participation in the slave trade, and was particularly active in that traffic as well in various other trades in the last two... Read more →
The Tuohy papers
The documents pertaining to David Tuohy are those of an Irishman who spent fourteen years in the African trade, including the captaincy of four slave voyages between 1765 and 1769 and part-ownership of ten Liverpool slave ships from 1772 to 1786. Tuohy married in Liverpool in 1768 and settled there in 1771. After his experience as a captain of slave vessels, he settled down as a merchant on Merseyside. In... Read more →
Miscellaneous documents from the Liverpool Record Office
Several smaller items which include interesting additional details on the Liverpool slave trade. Read more →
