William Hinde

Total Number of Slaving Voyages for which they are responsible according to slavevoyages.org: 25
Estimated Enslaved Captives Trafficked Throughout Career according to slavevoyages.org: 6527
Details: William Hinde (1773-1834) was a Liverpool slaver. William Hinde was the brother of Samuel Hinde, the son of Thomas Hinde, and the nephew of John Hinde, all of whom notable slavers themselves. John Hinde made both Samuel and William residuary legatees of his plantation in St. Mary, Jamaica after his death. A letter from Samuel and William Hinde in the waning days of legal slave-trading in Britain shows them calling for one of their ship, the Trafalgar, to make a “quick dispatch, in order that we may get her cleared if possible on another voyage prior to the Act of Abolition being passed. It is of great consequence in a new and burthensome vessel like the Trafalgar that she should have a full freight […]”
UCL Database: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146645849
Citations/Sources: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) William & Samuel Hinde. Letter from a British Slave-Trading Firm in the Waning Days of the Legal Slave Trade. Autograph Letter Signed to P.M. Lucas & Co. in St. Vincent. Liverpool, England, 18 August 1806. https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/(SLAVERY-AND-ABOLITION)-William--Samuel-Hinde-Letter-from-a-?saleno=2562&lotNo=1&refNo=778949