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Liverpool and Jamaica slave factor, partner with Samuel Rainford (q.v.) and Robert Rainford senior (q.v.), at first in Kingston and then returning to Liverpool. Son of the Liverpool slave trader Jonathon or Jonathan Blundell (1723-1800) whom he reportedly predeceased by a few months in 1800 aged 42.
The firm of Rainford, Blundell & Rainford is the subject of a case study in Sheryllynne Haggerty, Merely for Money? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815 (Liverpool University Press, 2012) pp. 181-188; Leeds Intelligencer Monday 28 April 1800 p. 3.
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Transatlantic
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Partner
Rainford, Blundell and Rainford
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Liverpool, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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1729 - 1809
Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Jonathon Blundell jun.', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146664069/ [accessed 19th April 2024].
