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between 1722 and 1727. Historian Kay Wright Lewis describes him as "a
Londoner and leading slave dealer." By the 1730s Joseph and Samuel Wragg were the first independent slave traders to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and were responsible for the first large influx of slaves
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During the year 1735/1736 alone, Joseph Wragg imported 341 slaves from Africa, 6,230 gallons of rum from
Antigua and Barbados, paid duties of 296 pounds on sundries imported from Philadelphia and Barbados, exported 6,095 deerskins to London and Bristol, exported rice and imported various European
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From the 1720s Wragg and
Benjamin Savage were the predominant slave transporters and traders in the Thirteen Colonies, and they were among the first colonial merchants and ship owners to specialize in slave trading. Between 1717 and 1744 Wragg and Savage accounted for 36 slave ships and the
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in 1718, and Samuel Wragg then negotiated on behalf of the government of
Charles Town and agreed to provide the pirates with a chest of medicines.
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goods. Between 1735 and 1739 Joseph Wragg & Co. received 20 cargoes of
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importation of around 10,000 African slaves. Wragg's name appears 25 times in minutes of the
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