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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Scottish shipbuilding company in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which was actively involved in supporting Britain's naval empire and imperial commerce. Some of the company's clients included the African Mail Company and the African Steamship Company
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Harland & Wolff Major shipping company in the United Kingdom, formed in the mid-nineteenth century and still in existence today. Harland & Wolff was actively involved in supporting Britain's maritime empire with its ship-building yards across the UK. Harland & Wolff built ships for a number of companies involved in empire, such as the African Steamship Company, the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company, and the West India & Pacific Steam Navigation Company, During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Harland & Wolff allegedly received orders for steamers from the Confederate States of America, which was fighting to preserve the institution of slavery in the United States, although whether these orders were actually carried out has not yet been proven. -
James Dick & Co. West India merchant partnership between Robert Milligan (1746-1809) and James Dick (1743-1828).
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Messrs William Cowlin & Sons A family firm in working in building and construction, including, it appears, the erection of statues and other public memorials. The Bristol Archives says: 'The partnership became a Private Limited Company in 1924, changing its name to Cowlin Construction Ltd in 1997. In 2007 the firm was bought by Balfour Beatty.'
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Milligan & Mitchell West India merchant partnership between Robert Milligan (1746-1809) and David Mitchell (?-1804).
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Milligan Robertson West India merchant partnership between Robert Milligan (1746-1809), Colin Robertson (?-1836), David Milligan (1789-1818) and Duncan Davidson Milligan (1793 - 1846).
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Royal African Company English trading company, established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants, which was the single largest institution trading in enslaved people from Africa to the Americas during the history of the transatlantic slave-trade. Between 1672 and the early 1720s, the Royal African Company transported nearly 150,000 enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. -
Royal Niger Company Nineteenth-century colonial mercantile company, chartered by the British government, which played an important role in the colonisation of Nigeria. The firm was operated under the name of the United African Company (1879-1881), the National African Company (1881-1886), and the Royal Niger Company (1886-1929). The Royal Niger Company became part of the United African Company in 1929, the latter of which was absorbed into Unilever. -
South Sea Company British joint-stock company in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. First founded in 1711, the company received the Asiento de Negros (a monopoly contract from the Spanish Crown) in 1713 to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's colonies in the Americas. Estimates of the number of enslaved people transported by the South Sea Company run to over 34,000, with an estimated 4,000 dying during the course of the Middle Passage. In 1720, the Company's finances dramatically collapsed in what came to be known as the South Sea Bubble. -
West India Dock Company The West India Dock Company was responsible for the creation of the West India Docks, which first opened in 1802. Founded by the merchant and slave-owner Robert Milligan (1746-1809), the Docks were built to facilitate the flow of commodities and people between Britain and the Caribbean.