20914 – Merchant’s Delight (1675 – 1676) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 20914

Was this a corporate crossing: Yes

Vessel

Name: Merchant's Delight

Flags: gb

Tonnage: /

Journey

Departure Year: 1675

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1676

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Cape Coast Castle

Principal landing location: Virginia, port unspecified

Number embarked: 299

Number disembarked: 239

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Bought at least one slave in Africa - subsequent fate unknown

Sources

T70/910, f.107<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/1222,56<>BNA (Kew) (), Donnan,I,203<>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930), CO1/34,109<>BNA (Kew)

Individuals (2)

George Berkeley, First Earl of Berkeley

Investor type: Corporate

Corporate Role: Director

Sir Robert Clayton

Investor type: Corporate

Corporate Role: Director