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- ↑ E., Minchinton, Walter (1984). Virginia slave-trade statistics, 1698-1775. King, Celia M. (Celia Mary), Waite, Peter B., Virginia State Library. Richmond: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0884901181. OCLC 10799029.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Richardson, David (1987). Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-century Slave Trade to America: The years of ascendancy, 1730-1745. Bristol Record Society.
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henry dampier master of merchant ventures.
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