Manx Guinea Captains operating out of Liverpool

Wilkins gives the following list of Captains operating out of Liverpool in the "Guinea Trade"

Lutwidge Affleck John Bean Christopher Brew Henry Callow Thomas Cannell George Cannon David Christian Ross Christian Edward Clark John Corran William Corran James Cosnahan Thomas Cottyman Hugh Cowell † Hugh Crow William Crow † Thomas Cubbon Thomas Cubbon Edward Dugan Quayle Fargher George Farquhar William Farquhar John Finch Michael Finch Henry Frissel Richard Gawn John Gill

William Gill William Gill Philip Kewish Patrick Kewley Thomas Kewley William Kewley Hugh Kissack Charles Kneal William Kneal Ambrose Lace William Lace Alexander Lawson Caesar Lawson William Lawson Henry Moore John Quirk Radcliffe Shimmins Matthew Sibson Francis Stowell James Stowell Thomas Stowell John Tear John Tobin Thomas Tobin Daniel Vaughan Robert Waterson

The coast of Africa was a dangerous area for Europeans to spend time exposed to tropical illnesses - most would need to spend two or three months loading slaves who were loaded into cramped conditions on board the slaving vessels prior to the 'middle passage' across the atlantic to the sugar and cotton growing areas in the Carribean or southern states of the USA. Possibly a third or so of Europeans engaged in the trade died on the coast of Africa though the rewards, especially for the officers (captain, mate and the important surgeon), for a successful voyage could be great - those known to have died on this coast are indicated †.

References

Suzanne Schwartz "Slave Captain: the Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade" 2nd ed Liverpool University Press 2008 (ISBN 978-184631-067-6)
Frances Wilkins "Manx Slave Traders" Kidderminster 1999