3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
P_10433_3292 – William Fielde or Feilde
Born: Unknown
Died: 1807
William Feilde (d. 1807), Governor of Cape Coast Castle 1789-1791 and then London merchant, bankrupt in 1792 but making a financial recovery before his death in Camberwell in 1807. William Feilde [sic] was co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Speculator to Anomabu and Jamaica in 1791, while William Fielde was the co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the William Beckford to the Gold Coast and St Vincent in 1802, and was possibly the W. Fielde who had a slaving voyage from Bristol in 1801 to Cape Coast Castle and Orinoco. William Feilde (q.v.) was bankrupt 1792 but the connections to Cape Coast Castle of William Fielde’s voyage[s] suggests this was the same man.