Dalby Thomas

Dalby Thomas (c. 1650–1711) was an English businessman and writer.[1]

Slave Trade

He wrote Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of the West-India Colonies and of the Great Advantages They Are to England, in Respect to Trade which was published in London in 1690.[2] Here he advocated revoking the monopoly on trading in enslaved Africans, which at the time was enjoyed by the Royal African Company, arguing that free trade would lead to a reduction in the price of chattel slaves.[3] Thomas called for the establishment of a great council of trade representing every "every Plantation, Marritime, City, Company, Constitution and Trade, which would desire to send Members to it", which would draw up advisory documents for both Houses of Parliament.[4]

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References
  1. "Thomas, Sir Dalby (c. 1650–1711), merchant and writer | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". www.oxforddnb.com. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-49984. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  2. "1690, West Indian Colonies, History, Dalby". www.llmc.com. Law Library Microform Consortium. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  3. Hogg, Peter (2014). The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317792352.
  4. Horrigan, Liam Francis (2016). Settling the Trade to Africa: The Anglo-African Trade, 1695-1715, and the Political and Economic Implications of 1698. Canterbury: University of Kent.

Dalby is mentioned several times in K G Davies Royal African Company along with Jon Snow whom was his contemporary in NW Africa.

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