Merchants [ Commerce ]
… dealings. People > Commerce Mots-clés Commerce Merchants Middling sort North America Politeness A merchant was ‘a trader or a dealer by wholesale’, especially ‘one who trafficks to remote countries’. 1 Not only did the variety of … The National Archives , Kew, London, E 190/1427/5. Some of the most popular new commodities were linked directly to the slave trade. Foster Cunliffe was the head of a prosperous slave-trading family in Liverpool, where he also served three terms as mayor. By the mid-eighteenth century, Liverpool …
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