24026 – Africa (1753 – 1754)
Voyage ID: 24026
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Africa
Flags: gb
Tonnage: 74.3
Journey
Departure Year: 1753
Departure Location: Lancaster
Arrival Year: 1754
Arrival Location: Lancaster
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Sierra Leone estuary
Principal landing location: South Carolina, port unspecified
Number embarked: 125
Number disembarked: 114
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Voyage completed as intended
Sources
Elder,62,122<>Elder, Melinda, <i>The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth Century Lancaster</i> (Halifax, 1992). , Donnan,IV,310,325<><p>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., <em>Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III</em> (Washington, DC, 1930)</p>, Schofield,276<><p>Schofield, Maurice M.,"The Slave Trade from Lancashire and Cheshire Ports Outside Liverpool, c. 1750-c. 1790," in Roger Anstey and P.E.H. Hair (eds.), <em>Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition</em>, enlarged edition (Liverpool, 1989).</p>, RWJ,54.12.14.<><i>Read's Weekly Journal; or, British Gazetteer</i>, PA,54.10.12.<><i>Public Advertiser</i>, A&L,1753-58, 60-61<><p>Austin & Laurens Account Book, 1753-1758, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT</p> <p> </p>
Individuals (2)
P_10430_0020 - Robert Thompson
Role: Owner
P_10430_0021 - John Thompson
Role: Owner