25502 – Commerce (1784 – 1785) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 25502

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Commerce

Flags: usa

Tonnage: /

Journey

Departure Year: 1784

Departure Location: Boston

Arrival Year: 1785

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Cape Coast Castle

Principal landing location: Charleston

Number embarked: 133

Number disembarked: 117

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown

Sources

LList, 27 Aug 1784<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), T70/1550<>BNA (Kew) (), Caulkins, 39<>New London Historical Society (New London, Connecticut, USA) F. M. Caulkins, mss “New London Marine 1760-1831”, Coughtry,115-16<>Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981)., McMillin<>McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert.

Individuals

No information