The main purpose of this short paper is to estimate the profitability of the English outport slave trade and to consider the English experience against the background of recent work on the profits achieved by Continental, notably French, Dutch and Danish, slave traders. An assessment of profits in the English trade is attempted by a brief analysis of the trading accounts of William Davenport, a prominent Liverpool slave trader during the third quarter of the 18th century. It is suggested that the average return achieved by Davenport in those years — about 10 % per annum — was probably typical of the Liverpool slave trade as a whole at that time. If this is so, Liverpool merchants at least seem to have been managing the trade relatively succ...
On the basis of foreign sources, Curtin (1969) estimated that between 1761 and 1810 Denmark exported...
In 1783 Scottish native John Tailyour arrived in Jamaica, where he hoped to make his fortune after a...
In 2018 it is 400 years since the first official English Africa company was launched. Ye...
This paper studies the characteristics of investment in the slave trade and other long distance trad...
This thesis examines the business history of William Davenport (1725-1797), a Liverpool slave tradin...
This paper contributes to the literature on payments for slave sales in the later phase of the Briti...
Computing the profit rates of slave trade is central to the debate on the importance of this trade f...
Dutch research into the slave trade and its importance to the Dutch economy has often limited itself...
Copyright © 2019 The Economic History Association. One important, but overlooked, risk mitigation de...
Abstract This paper uses a new data set of 1,633 slaving voyages to produce new estimates of the vol...
On the basis of primary data relating to the British trade, the paper examines varions issues concer...
We use slave voyage data from 18th century Great Britain and France to answer two questions: 1) How ...
It is well known that Liverpool surpassed Bristol as Britain's premier slave trading port in the mid...
It is well known that Liverpool surpassed Bristol as Britain's premier slave trading port in the mid...
J. E. Inikori — Le volume de la traite anglaise, 1655-1807. Le volume de la traite britannique des e...
On the basis of foreign sources, Curtin (1969) estimated that between 1761 and 1810 Denmark exported...
In 1783 Scottish native John Tailyour arrived in Jamaica, where he hoped to make his fortune after a...
In 2018 it is 400 years since the first official English Africa company was launched. Ye...
This paper studies the characteristics of investment in the slave trade and other long distance trad...
This thesis examines the business history of William Davenport (1725-1797), a Liverpool slave tradin...
This paper contributes to the literature on payments for slave sales in the later phase of the Briti...
Computing the profit rates of slave trade is central to the debate on the importance of this trade f...
Dutch research into the slave trade and its importance to the Dutch economy has often limited itself...
Copyright © 2019 The Economic History Association. One important, but overlooked, risk mitigation de...
Abstract This paper uses a new data set of 1,633 slaving voyages to produce new estimates of the vol...
On the basis of primary data relating to the British trade, the paper examines varions issues concer...
We use slave voyage data from 18th century Great Britain and France to answer two questions: 1) How ...
It is well known that Liverpool surpassed Bristol as Britain's premier slave trading port in the mid...
It is well known that Liverpool surpassed Bristol as Britain's premier slave trading port in the mid...
J. E. Inikori — Le volume de la traite anglaise, 1655-1807. Le volume de la traite britannique des e...
On the basis of foreign sources, Curtin (1969) estimated that between 1761 and 1810 Denmark exported...
In 1783 Scottish native John Tailyour arrived in Jamaica, where he hoped to make his fortune after a...
In 2018 it is 400 years since the first official English Africa company was launched. Ye...