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Liverpool’s success in the slave trade owed much to her merchants’ ability to make good use of the port’s locational advantages. Liverpool’s slaving vessels and transatlantic trade generally benefited in the war years of the 1740s – the period when Liverpool first assumed ascendancy among British slave trading ports – by having a geographical position that was more distant from sea passages frequented by enemy men-of-war than was the case at Bristol, London or ports on England’s southern coast.
CCXXVII: Papers relating to the Slave Trade, 1787–1823. For a summary of Baker & Dawson’s contracts to supply slaves to Spanish America, see David MacPherson, Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigation, with Brief Notices of the Arts and Sciences Connected with Them, 4 vols. (London, 1805), iv, 166–67.
These and subsequent figures on ships in this paragraph are taken from David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson and Herbert S. Klein, The TransAtlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (Cambridge, 1999). Different figures are given in D. P. Lamb, ‘Volume and Tonnage of the Liverpool Slave Trade 1772–1807’, in Roger Anstey and P. E. H. Hair (eds), Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition: Essays to Illustrate Current Knowledge and Research, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Occasional series, 2 (Liverpool, 1976), 91–112, and David Richardson, ‘The Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade: Estimates of its Volume and Coastal Distribution in Africa’, Research in Economic History, 12 (1989), 185–95.