Rhode Island slave trade business account, 1795-1798.

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Rhode Island slave trade business account, 1795-1798.

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Business account of Samuel Chase, master of the Ascension, and the ship's owners Peleg Clark, Caleb Gardner and William Vernon of Rhode Island, describes the ship's voyages and business transactions carried on by the captain while involved in the slave trade from Africa to Spanish America.

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Chase, Samuel Brown

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Ascension (Slave ship)

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Clark, Peleg,

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Gardner, Caleb,

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Vernon, William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6474gs3 (person)

Epithet: of Stowe MS 745 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000628.0x0000e7 Import-export merchant of Newport, Rhode Island. From the description of Papers of William Vernon, 1772-1797. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135408 Epithet: Knight Constable of England British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000628.0x...