P_10433_2303 – Archibald Dalziel
Archibald Dalziel (later Dalzel, fl. 1763-1807), slave-trader on the coast of Africa, owner of slave voyages, slave-ship captain, and author of the History of Dahomy (1792), lobbyist against abolition and Governor of Cape Coast Castle 1791-1802. He is shown in TASTDB as owner of 9 voyages, owner-captain of a further voyage and captain of three more, all from London, and co-owner of three voyages from Liverpool and captain of a fourth, but at least two more voyages from London included in TASTDB without ownership information – of the Jamaica in 1769-70 and of the Little Archy in 1773 – are identified as his in Rawley, who also includes under Dalziel’s ownership two additional voyages of the Nancy in 1776 and 1778; two by the Hannah in 1776 and 1778; and possibly one additional voyage each by the Thames and the Chalmers, none of which appears in TASTDB. According to Rawley, Dalziel was in Africa from c. 1763, initially a surgeon at Anomabo on the Gold Coast, then governor of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa’s fort at Whydah in Dahomey ‘for four years’. Again according to Rawley, he was bankrupt in 1773 and again in 1778.
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First name: Archibald
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Last name: Dalziel
Aliases: Dalzel, Archibald, Dalziel
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: James A. Rawley 'Further Light on Archibald Dalzel [sic]', International journal of African Historical Studies 17:2 (1984) pp. 317-23, reprinted in London: Metropolis of the Slave-Trade (Columbia, Missouri: 2003) pp. 98-107. Rawley also has an entry on Dalziel in the ODNB.
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Crossings (15)
75602 - Hannah (1775 - 1775)
Role: Captain-owner
77117 - Nancy (1775 - 1775)
Role: Owner
83744 - Thames (1806 - 1807)
Role: Owner
83743 - Thames (1805 - 1805)
Role: Owner
83742 - Thames (1803 - 1804)
Role: Owner
80782 - Chalmers (1807 - 1807)
Role: Owner
80781 - Chalmers (1805 - 1806)
Role: Owner
83454 - Saint Ann (1783 - 1784)
Role: Captain
83173 - President Ince (1806 - 1807)
Role: Owner
82338 - London (1807 - 1808)
Role: Owner
82337 - London (1806 - 1806)
Role: Owner
81632 - Gosport and Havre Packet (1789 - 1790)
Role: Captain
81323 - Europa (1783 - 1783)
Role: Captain
78139 - Little Archy (1773 - 1774)
Role: Owner
78264 - Jamaica (1769 - 1770)
Role: Owner
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