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A fact from William Davenport (slave trader) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The result was: promoted by Bilorv (talk) 12:41, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
The ref William Davenport, the Slave Trade, and Merchant Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool by Nicholas James Radburn (2009) says on page 13: "Throughout his thirty-eight year career as a ship owner, he invested in 163 slaving ventures, more than any other merchant in the history of the Liverpool slave trade. These vessels carried nearly 40,000 Africans to the Americas, and involved a personal investment from Davenport of £127,000, equivalent to £10 million sterling today. Davenport‘s lengthy involvement in the slave trade, coupled with his substantial personal investment made him one of the largest and most ubiquitous slaving merchants of his day."
5x expanded by Desertarun (talk). Self-nominated at 14:39, 8 June 2021 (UTC).
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Overall: This is only my second DYK review. The only note I would make is that you may consider also shortening the hook to just say "...that William Davenport (1725-1794) was, by the number of ships disembarked, the single most prolific slave trader from the Port of Liverpool?". That way it doesn't use the title of "most prolific slave trader" twice in a row. Rizzle13 (talk) 18:31, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
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