Summary information

Study title

English Slave Trade, 1791-1799 : House of Lords Survey

Creator

Klein, H. S., Columbia University (New York)

Study number / PID

1385 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1385-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of this study was to examine the growth of slave trade to the America's, the internal dynamics of its volume, and how it compared with other trades within the British Empire and with other leading slave trade routes of other European powers.

Main Topics:

Variables
Ship's name, tonnage, home port of ship, departure date, African port of arrival, date of African arrival, slaves taken on board (total number), slave mortality, slaves relanded before African port departure, number of slaves shipped, date of African departure, American port of arrival, date of arrival in New World, number of slaves landed, date ship left America.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

HistoryTransport and travelEconomic conditions and indicatorsMinoritiesInternational politics and organisations

GENDERMORTALITYPARLIAMENTARY RECORDSPORTSSHIPSSLAVESTRADEUPPER HOUSE

Data collection period

01/01/1974

Country

Angola, Barbados, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Cuba, Dominica, England, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Liberia, Martinique, Nigeria, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Trinidad

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Slave ships

Cross-national

Subnational

Slave trade

Universe

Slave ship voyages to the British Caribbean from African ports

Sampling procedure

Purposive selection/case studies

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1979

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Klein, H. (1978) 'The English slave trade to Jamaica, 1782-1808', Economic History Review, 25-45
Klein, H. (1978) The Middle Passage: comparative studies in the Atlantic slave trade, Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press.