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John Hull (December 18, 1624 – October 1, 1683) was an English-born merchant, silversmith, slave trader and politician who spent the majority of his life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. After arriving in North America , he worked as a silversmith in Boston before becoming the moneyer responsible for issuing the colony's pine tree shillings ...
Marquis of Huntley was built in Holland under another name. She was taken in prize circa 1803 and became a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She made two complete voyages; with the end of the British slave trade she first traded with the Baltic and then made one voyage from Hull as a whaler in the northern whale fishery.
"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
The Henrietta Marie was a slave ship that carried captive Africans to the West Indies, where they were sold as slaves.The ship wrecked at the southern tip of Florida on its way home to England, and is one of only a few wrecks of slave ships that have been identified.
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire (1784–1812).
In 1855 [10] or 1856, [11] Meaher had built Clotilda, a two-masted schooner 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 feet (7.0 m) and a copper-sheathed hull, designed for the lumber trade. [12] The schooner had been refitted as a slave ship with a false deck. Foster obtained papers with the false claim he was delivering lumber.
The UK "can't change our history", Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC when asked about paying reparations to countries impacted by the transatlantic slave trade.
Wilberforce house, High Street, Hull. Wilberforce House is a British historic house museum, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull.It is the birthplace of social reformer William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who used his time as a member of Parliament to work for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.