Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Earle (slave trader)
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:50, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
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Thomas Earle (slave trader)
- ... that Thomas Earle had his slave-ship Annabella seized by HMS Inconstant? : Source: Earle 2015 p=213 says "...Annabella, a ship sent out under the command of John McClure for the Gold Coast and Demerara on 18 February 1804. Five months later, it was reported in Lloyds List that she had been seized at Cape Coast by the Royal Navy frigate Inconstant 'for illicit trade'.
Created by Desertarun (talk). Self-nominated at 19:28, 13 August 2021 (UTC).
Hi Desertarun, review follows: article created 13 August and exceeds minimum length; article is cited inline throughout to reliable sources; sources used are all offline so I cannot check for overly close paraphrasing (happy to AGF); hook is mentioned in the article and cited (AGF on sourcing); a QPQ has been carried out. OK to run as is but a couple of comments: your link to Anglo-Dutch Wars is not right for 1804, this would have been an early part of the Napoleonic Wars (the Dutch were by then a client state of the French). I'd also suggest that the most interesting thing about the case of the Annabella is not that it was seized (more than 1,600 such vessels were seized by the West Africa Squadron) but that her seizure pre-dates the Slave Trade Act 1807: she was seized for trading with the enemy rather than for carrying slaves. I wonder if a hook could be built around that? - Dumelow (talk) 05:49, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Dumelow: Thanks for the review. Yes that would make a better hook, although I'm also OK with ALT0. I will try ALT1 below, it has the same source.
- ALT1 ... that Thomas Earle had his slave-ship Annabella seized by the British Crown, not for slave trading, but for slave trading with the enemy?
