The African Company of Merchants was established by Act of Parliament as a successor organisation to the Royal African Company in 1752. Provision was made for interested citizens to join the corporation in three cities: at foundation there were 135 members in London,157 in Bristol and 101 in Liverpool, which nevertheless had the most extensive participation in slave trade.
Liverpool members
Founding members
The following list of 101 names was published on 24 June 1752. Several were MPs for Liverpool at some stage in their lives.
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References
- Williams, Gomer (2004). History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque : with an account of the Liverpool slave trade, 1744-1812. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2745-1.
- Elizabeth Donnan (1931). Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America /. Washington, D.C. hdl:2027/pst.000009721524.