Hardman Earle
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Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet was a British businessman, railway director and slave owner.
Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet
Thomas Earle (slave trader)
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Thomas Earle was an English slave trader. He was responsible for at least 73 slave voyages and alongside his brother he transported over 19,000 enslaved people. Of these 3,000 died on board his ships.
Hardman Earle
…death, being primarily associated with the London and North Western Railway. Earle was born on 11 July 1792. He was the fourth son of the slave trader, Thomas Earle. Earle attended school in Warrington before attending Charterhouse School, then located in Charterhouse Square, London…
Painting of a slave ship showing enslaved people chained up below deck
Slavers collecting enslaved people off the coast of Africa; drawing by Édouard Duncan
Slave shackles