By stemming the flow of both capital and managerial skills into the port's slaving activity during this critical phase of the developing competition with Liverpool, the demographic difficulties of Bristol's second generation of slave traders perhaps finally ensured their port's removal as an effective rival to Liverpool during the last sixty years of the British Atlantic slave trade.

This voluminous collection thus allows one to study in remarkably close detail how the Bristol slave trade was organised and conducted.

Bibliographic note.