The 33ft (10m) cross-section plan was commissioned by the British Board of Trade to assist in the 36-day hearing. It was bought by a private collector in 2011 for £220,000, which was then a world ...

A British Board of Trade inquiry in Glasgow the following March severely condemned the owners and highlighted the undermanning of the ship - both in terms of numbers and the fact that many of the ...

The slave trade stimulated British manufacturing and industry through the demand for goods such as plantation utensils and clothing needed for enslaved people and estates. The African historian ...