Although Rhode Island enacted a law in 1787 forbidding its citizens to participate in the slave trade, the ship Nancy, captained by James B. Cook, continued to sail from Providence to the Upper Guinea coast between 1791 and 1803, trading rum and other goods for African slaves. This account book records the number and price of slaves and the South American plantation owners who purchased them. Gift of Capt. Edward Naumberg, Jr. General Manuscripts Bound, no. 1226, Manuscripts Division.

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