Peter Baker (slave trader)
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Peter Baker (slave trader)
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Peter Baker (1731–1796) was a privateer, shipbuilder, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and notable English slave trader. He formed the Liverpool shipbuilding company Baker and Dawson with his son-in-law John Dawson. Baker was a figure of political importance in Liverpool history at a time when the settlement was the foremost slave trading hub of the UK. Baker was part of the Corporation of Liverpool, one of the UK's largest slave trading enterprises, at a time when the corporation was opposing the first
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English slave trader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baker_(slave_trader)
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2020-12-19T15:53:43Z
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2024-09-14T08:26:13Z
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