Camden, Calvert and King

Camden, Calvert and King was an eighteenth century partnership that traded in London from 1760-1824.

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The partners owned whalers, merchant vessels trading to the East and West Indies, slavers, and vessels transporting convicts to Australia.

The partners became involved in the transportation of English convicts first to America and later to Australia.

They were the largest company in London involved in the slave trade. After the British Parliament passed an Act for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the company continued to put its know-how in transporting people to work transporting convicts to Australia.