[2] Ingram was responsible for at least 108 slave voyages, carrying around 34,000 enslaved people, of whom around 5,000 died on his ships.
[3] He had a career lasting 39 years, a time span exceeded by only three other Liverpool slave traders.
[1] Ingram pioneered the British slave trade at Porto-Novo in the Bight of Benin, in the 1780s fewer than 200 enslaved people were bought each year from the township, but by the 1790s this number had increased to more than 3,000.
In response Francis Ingram became a privateer, often working in partnership with other slavers such as Thomas Leyland.
"[10] He added "To be fired with enthusiasm, to cruise about the seas in 'great spirits' replying to the enemy's remarks with hot broadsides, to face death manfully for the honour of Liverpool, must have done good to many a bankrupt soul".
[10] He writes that Ingram in his private letters to Captain Haslam does not discuss the atrocities that his crew were almost certainly committing.
Instead he discusses perfunctory obligations that must be carried out to ensure he receives the maximum financial return.
[7] The Le Vaillant was captured by Captain Haslam laden with wine, flour, sugar, but it was shipwrecked on 12 September 1780.
[14] He became a banking partner of Staniforth, Bold and Daltera and together they are recorded as having leased property on Poole Street, Liverpool in 1792.
Its purpose was to lobby the UK government and attempt to prevent the regulation of the slave trade.