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The excerpt you provided discusses new research and historical findings related to the Sandbach, Tinne and Company, a trading firm closely linked to the transatlantic slave trade and the illegal trafficking of enslaved Africans even after abolition laws were passed. Here’s a summary of the key points:
– **Sandbach, Tinne and Company** was involved in the slave trade and illegally trafficked enslaved Africans to Guyana (then British Guiana) after slavery was officially abolished.
– The **Slave Trade Act of 1807** ended the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans in British territories, and the **Slavery Abolition Act of 1833** abolished slavery throughout most of the British Empire.
– An **1847 letter** from Peter Miller Watson, who managed Sandbach Tinne’s interests in Demerara (Guyana), indicates that a company ship, *the Parker*, arrived carrying over 300 Africans described as “cargo,” including children, despite slavery having been abolished by then.
– The letter’s language treats the Africans as property, referring to casualties as a loss of “property,” strongly suggesting these Africans were trafficked illegally and enslaved.
– Historian and author **Malik Al Nasir**, in his book *Searching for My Slave Roots*, highlights these findings and helped inspire a research project called **Overwriting-Underwriting**, aimed at uncovering the financial networks behind enslavement.
– Peter Miller Watson was related to British prime minister William Gladstone and fathered Andrew Watson, the first Black international footballer, who captained Scotland in the 1880s.
– This research challenges the notion that all Africans arriving post-abolition were indentured or freed individuals, indicating some were still enslaved and trafficked illegally by companies like Sandbach, Tinne and Company.
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