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Tarleton was the part-owner and manager of several ships engaged in the slave trade, the Tarleton and the Swan in the 1750s, and the John in the 1760s, mainly delivering slaves to Jamaica. At his death in 1773, Tarleton also owned slaves at the Belfield Estate in Dominica.
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b. 26 Oct. 1755, 3rd s. of John Tarleton, W. I. merchant, of Aigburth, nr. Liverpool, and bro. of Banastre Tarleton*. m.26 Oct. 1790, Isabel, da. and coh. of Alexander Collingwood of Unthank, Northumb., 3s. 1da.
Tarleton, who received £5,000 by his father’s will on coming of age, was a Liverpool West India merchant, in partnership with his brothers Thomas and Clayton Tarleton and one Daniel Backhouse. Between 1786 and 1804 he invested in 39 Liverpool registered ships, with a total tonnage of 7,874. He was a member of the delegation sent to London in 1788 b...
26 de nov. de 2021 · Searching these names in the Slave Voyages and Legacies of British Slavery databases provides a picture of their business interests, and the extent to which they were involved in the slave trade, typically as the co-owner of a slave ship.
John Tarleton (1718–1773) was an English ship-owner and slave-trader, and Mayor of Liverpool in 1764. Tarleton was born in 1718 to Thomas Tarleton, who with his brother John had been involved with trading in West Indies and Africa.
American Slave Trade Records and Other Papers of the Tarleton Family, 1678–1838 contains letters, annual reports, and supplementary materials from the influential Tarleton family, revealing their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, with a particular focus on Liverpool and the West Indies.
Tarleton and the Slave Trade. Returning to the beginning of Tarleton’s story, he was born into a dynasty of merchants heavily involved in the Transatlantic slave trade. His father, John Tarleton, owned ships engaged in the slave trade and directly owned slaves at the Belfield Estate in Dominica.
Biography. John Tarleton (d. 1773), Liverpool slave-trader and slave-owner, owner of an estate on Carriacou Grenada inferred to have been Mount Pleasant, and a further estate not yet traced named Belfield on Dominica.
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