June 26, 1718 - Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet
A Royal Navy admiral who also operated in the transatlantic slave trade, Frankland represents the institutional overlap between British naval power and the commerce in enslaved people that defined much of the eighteenth century. His career illustrates how figures of rank and official standing participated directly in that trade rather than simply benefiting from it at a remove. The combination of military, political, and slaving interests in a single biography makes him a representative figure of his era's entangled systems of power and human exploitation.
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Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet (26 June 1718 – 21 November 1784) was a Royal Navy officer, politician and slave trader. He was the second son of Henry Frankland and Mary Cross. Frankland was born in the East Indies (probably India), his father being a member of the East India Company and briefly Governor of Bengal.
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