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The African Company of Merchants was established by Act of Parliament as a successor organisation to the Royal African Company in 1752. Provision was made for interested citizens to join the corporation in three cities: at foundation there were 135 members in London,157 in Bristol and 101 in Liverpool, which nevertheless had the most extensive participation in slave trade.[1]

  1. ^ Williams, Gomer (2004). History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque : with an account of the Liverpool slave trade, 1744-1812. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2745-1.

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