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First name:
Robert (Capt)
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Last name:
Aynsley
Aliases:
Aynstey, Robert, Aynstie, Robt
Primary cohort:
London
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Male
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Geographic experiences
Africa
On the coast of Gambia in the 1770s and early 1790s.
Internal migrant:
No
Foreign born:
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Supplier to slave trade voyages:
No
Creditor to slave trade voyages:
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Philanthropy:
No
Plantation owner:
No
Sources:
J.M. Gray, A History of the Gambia, pp. 290-2.
'Read, an Order of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, dated September 14th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of James Bloy, of London, merchant, praying leave to export to the coast of Africa, on board the brig Camelia, Robert Aynsley, master, twenty barrels of common trading gunpowder, one hundred trade guns, and one hundred cutlasses, for trade on the African coast', https://www.british-history.ac.uk/jrnl-trade-plantations/vol13/pp429-436.
MAHONEY, F. “NOTES ON MULATTOES OF THE GAMBIA BEFORE THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana 8 (1965): 120–29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41403572.
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Was slave trading profitable:
No
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