"William Davenport & Co." . . . . "1700 - 1799" . . "The papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797"@en . . "\"Part 3 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. William Davenport was a Liverpool merchant and British slave trader. From the late 1740s till the early 1790s, he invested regularly in the African slave trade and was a partner in slaving ventures with other leading merchant Liverpool families. These papers from Keele University Library are accompanied by a guide to the collection by Professor David Richardson, Hull University.\"--britishonlinearchives.co.uk."@en . . "Archives"@en . . "History"@en . . . . . "Papers of William Davenport and Company, 1745-1797"@en . . . . . . "Sources"@en . . . . . .