Camden, Calvert and King was an eighteenth-century partnership that traded in London from 1760 to 1824,[1] transporting slaves and later convicts.
The partners' profits from slave trading created capital to fund other ventures including the East Indies trade, supplying the British army and navy with food, insurance underwriting and the status to obtain positions in important London organisations including the Corporation of London, Bank of England, East India Company, African Company of Merchants and Trinity House.
[2] 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 triangular trade in enslaved people.
[6] 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.