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，一个英国企业因其长寿而脱颖而出，它的范围及其商业和政治影响力，即Demerara糖和奴隶商人，他们被称为桑德巴赫Tinné & Co.。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），发展成为18世纪末、19世纪和20世纪最有影响力的商业企业之一。除了为英国的奴隶贩子提供资金外，他们积累的大量财富，还资助了一些最负盛名的学术机构，开创了将糖种植工业化的技术发明，资助了教堂，建立了银行，保险公司，航运公司，邮政配送，新闻网络，酿酒厂以及帝国的蒸汽动力铁路，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，他们的后代仍然享受着今天的特权。问题是，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，这将允许一个独特的和“集体传记”这个商人家庭的商业和社会利益出现，否则可能是无形的。

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.