Robert Bostock

Robert Bostock (22 April 1784 Bootle – 1847 Hobart) was an English slave trader. With John McQueen, he co-owned a factory on the Saint Paul River, nowadays in Liberia.[1]

In 1815 Governor William Maxwell of Sierra Leone sent an armed force to raid the settlement, seizing ships, merchandise and enslaved Africans from the factories there. Both Bostock and his partner McQueen were seized and taken to Sierra Leone. They were sentenced to fourteen years transportation to New South Wales by the Vice admiralty court.[2]:1145

References
  1. https://kinghuey.wordpress.com/bostock/
  2. Helfman, Tara (2006). "The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade". Yale Law Journal. 115 (5): 1122–1156. doi:10.2307/20455647. JSTOR 20455647. Retrieved 27 February 2016.

Further reading
  • Birrell, Thelma (1993). Mariners, merchants- then pioneers / Thelma Birrell. Bli Bli [Qld.]: T. Birrell. ISBN 0646140337.
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