3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

James Baillie was a major London West India merchant and slave-owner, partner with Edmund Thornton, with whom he had slaving voyages from Liverpool. He left £250,000 at death c. 1827. James Baillie was shown as a co-owner for the voyage of the Hercules from London to Iles de Los and then to Dominica  in 1791. He was possibly acting with his co-owners William Taylor and William Clay as trustees of Miles Barber for this voyage: Miles Barber had been the owner of  a previous voyage of the Hercules in 1788.