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African Merchants, Notables and the Slave Trade at Old Calabar, 1720: Evidence from the National Archives of Scotland | Semantic Scholar

@article{Behrendt2003AfricanMN,
  title={African Merchants, Notables and the Slave Trade at Old Calabar, 1720: Evidence from the National Archives of Scotland},
  author={Stephen D Behrendt and Eric J. Graham},
  journal={History in Africa},
  year={2003},
  volume={30},
  pages={37 - 61},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161919280}
}

In late 1719 the brigantine Hannover sailed from Port Glasgow on a slaving voyage to the Guinea coast. Shipowner Robert Bogle jr. and partners hired surgeon Alexander Horsburgh as supercargo to supervise their trade for provisions and slaves along the Windward Coast, Gold Coast, and at Old Calabar. The Hannover arrived off the Windward Coast in early March 1720, and during three weeks Horsburgh purchased two tons of rice and 21 enslaved Africans on Bogle's behalf. From 5 April to 2 May he… 

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