Camden, Calvert and King

Camden, Calvert and King was an eighteenth-century partnership that traded in London from 1760 to 1824,[1] transporting slaves and later convicts.

Activities

The partners owned whalers, merchant vessels trading to the East and West Indies, slavers and vessels transporting convicts to Australia.[2]

The partners became involved in the transportation of English convicts first to America and later to Australia.[3]

They were the largest company in London involved in the slave trade.[4] After the British Parliament passed an Act for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the company continued to put its know-how in transporting people to work transporting convicts to Australia.[4]

The principal partners were William Camden (173? - 1796), Anthony Calvert (1735-1809) and Thomas King (1735? – 1824).[1]

Addresses[2]

Vessels

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Cozens, Kenneth James. "Politics, Patronage and Profit: A Case Study of Three 18th Century London Merchants" (PDF). merchantnetworks.com. Ken Cozens and Dan Byrnes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  2. Clayton (2014), Addendum p. 11.
  3. Christopher, Emma (2011). A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199782555.
  4. "London's slave paper trail". BBC London. BBC. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

References

  • Clayton, Jane M. (2014) Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815: An alphabetical list of ships. (Berforts Group). ISBN 978-1908616524 (Addendum dated 2014).
  • Sturgess, Gary L.; Cozens, Ken (2013). "Managing a Global Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century: Anthony Calvert of The Crescent, London, 1777–1808". Mariner's Mirror. 99 (2): 171–195. doi:10.1080/00253359.2013.785134.
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