New Releases by David Shaw

Five letters, 30 January 1796 - May 1812, written by itinerant London merchant David Shaw, originating from Great Britain (London and Manchester), from aboard ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and from Charleston (South Carolina), to his sister and brother-in-law, John Alexander, Esq., living in southwest Scotland "near New Galloway, N[orth] Britain." Topics discussed include a few brief references to his investments in shipping tea to England as well as enslaved Africans to North America, his plans to relocate to the Bahamas and South Carolina for a short period, becoming shipwrecked near Charleston, S.C., and an 1806 letter written en route to Sierra Leone to purchase enslaved Africans (shortly before the 1807 ban on the international slave trade went into effect).