Guiana's sugar & slave merchants' influence on the wider slave economy, 1790-1840.

从奴隶制和学徒制，到契约劳工和殖民主义，一个英国企业因其悠久的历史，它的范围和它的商业和政治影响力而脱颖而出，那就是德默拉拉糖和奴隶贸易商，后来被称为桑德bach tinn<s:1> & Co.。尽管在历史圈中很大程度上被忽视，本研究探讨了这些主要来自苏格兰，西印度种植园，奴隶和糖商人，总部设在格拉斯哥和利物浦（在圭亚那和格林纳达有广泛的种植园），发展了18世纪末、19世纪和20世纪最具影响力的商业企业之一。除了为英国的许多奴隶贸易商提供资金外，他们的巨额财富积累还为一些最负盛名的学术机构提供了资金，开创了将糖种植工业化的技术发明，为教堂、银行、保险公司、航运公司、邮政配送、新闻网络、酿酒厂和帝国崛起的蒸汽动力铁路提供了资金，从而推动了工业革命。他们的商业模式成为现代银行体系的基础，从中获得的利润，他们的后代至今仍享有特权。那么问题来了，为什么没有人知道他们？本研究使用系谱学作为一种新的方法论史学工具，它将允许这个商人家族的商业和社会利益的独特和“集体传记”出现，否则可能是不可见的。

From slavery and apprenticeships, to indentured labour and colonialism, one British enterprise stands out for itslongevity, it's reach and its mercantile and political influence, that of the Demerara sugar and slave traders, who becameknown as Sandbach Tinné & Co. Though largely overlooked in historical circles, this study explores how these primarilyScottish, West India plantation, slave and sugar merchants, based in Glasgow and Liverpool (with extensive plantationsin Guiana and Grenada), developed one of the most influential commercial enterprises of the late 18th, 19th and 20thcenturies. As well as financing many of Britain's slave traders, their massive accumulation of wealth, endowed some ofthe most prestigious academic institutions, pioneered technological inventions to industrialise sugar cultivation, financedchurches, established banks, insurance companies, shipping lines, postal distribution, news networks, distilleries and thenascent steam powered railways of the empire, thus fuelling the industrial revolution. Their business model became thefoundation of the modern banking system, the profits from which, their descendants still enjoy the privilege of today. Thequestion arises therefore, Why does nobody know about them? This study uses genealogy as a new methodologicalhistoriographic tool, which will allow for a unique and 'collective biography' of this merchant family's business and socialinterests to emerge, which might otherwise be invisible.