This conversation focuses on a portrait of Joseph Marryat (1757–1824). The participants discuss Marryat’s significance and explore how he used his influence to oppose the abolition of slavery.
Joseph Marryat was an underwriter and banker who served as Chairman of Lloyd’s from 1811 to 1824. He was also a slave owner, ship owner, and a prominent committee member of the Society of West Indian Planters and Merchants. He was an Agent for Trinidad and then Grenada, and as an MP he opposed both the abolition of the slave trade and slavery through pamphlets and speeches in Parliament.
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