Joseph Wragg

Born Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Wragg immigrated to the American colonies where he became a pioneer in the slave trade.

Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire to a family of Welsh descent, he and his brother Samuel Wragg were merchants in London before they moved to Charles Town, South Carolina, where both became high-volume slave traders.

Wragg's name appears 25 times in minutes of the Royal African Company concerning shipments of slaves from the Gambia between 1722 and 1727.

"[6] For example, on 15 March 1738, Joseph Wragg & Co. sold 179 adults and 175 children taken from Angola aboard the slave ship "Shepherd.

[11][12] Joseph Wragg's daughter Elizabeth was married to Peter Manigault, the wealthiest man in the British North American colonies by the 1770s.

Joseph Wragg has numerous descendants who were prominent in American society as businesspeople, lawyers, and politicians.