Samuel Shaw (1718 – 1781) was an English slave trader.
His father, also called Samuel Shaw, was a mercer.
Prior to 1750, the British Crown held a monopoly of rights for slave trading in West Africa with a business called the Royal African Company.
[3] Shaw kidnapped over half of his enslaved people from the Bight of Biafra.
The locality in West Africa has now been renamed to the Bight of Bonny, at the time it was commonly used by Liverpool slave traders.