Title

London Metropolis of the Slave Trade

Accession Number

20

Creation Date

2003

Description

The transatlantic slave trade: a survey -- The port of London and the eighteenth-century slave trade: historians, sources, and a reappraisal -- Humphry Morice: foremost London slave merchant of his time -- Richard Harris, slave trader spokesman -- Henry Laurens and the Atlantic slave trade -- Further light on Archibald Dalzel -- John Newton: amazing grace -- London’s defense of the slave trade, 1787-1807 -- Captain Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for violating the slave trade laws -- A summing up.