Scottish Underwriter, Lloyd's of London and the Slave Trade.- Account Book, manuscript, 148pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, some ff. loose or working loose, slightly browned, 8pp. with newspaper cuttings laid down, some ff. slightly dampstained, a few blank ff. cut and torn, some juvenile pencil scribbling on blank ff., browned, hinges weak or breaking, original reverse calf, edges and corners worn, upper cover slight ink stain,lacks spine, folio, London, 1st January 1804 - London January 1808.

⁂ An account book covering four years in the first decade of the nineteenth century. The writer is a wealthy Lloyd's underwriter and a partner in a London merchant bank, with a network of expatriate Scottish financiers including dealings in the slave trade in Africa, the West Indies and the United States. The entries include paying a subscription to Lloyd's, together with Christmas boxes for the waiters there, domestic accounts, individuals and companies (including: Solomon Sebag (1783-1831), financier), underwriting etc. Several entries relating to slavery, including: George Alexander Wylie of South Carolina, who in April 1805 pays the author premiums for L'Affricane (Brew), from Liverpool to "Africa pr Mar]k[e]t" and Hugh Usher (1771-1811), owner with his brother, Thomas of the Cedar Valley plantation, Jamaica etc.