William James (slave trader)

[2] William James owned enslaved people on three plantations in Jamaica: Cambridge Pen, Clifton Hill, and Malborough Mount.

William James (the slave trader) left his grandson plantations with their enslaved people and financial wealth in his will.

[4] The owners of the Derby agreed to pay the wages due and the sailors spent the rest of the day drinking alcohol and celebrating.

The sailors then heard that there was a bounty on the leaders of the rioters, so they broke into a gun shop and stole 300 muskets and took cannons from the docks.

Gomer Williams writes "the annals of the eighteenth century probably cannot mention a more extraordinary and formidable popular outbreak in England than these riots, arising from the greed of slave-merchants and the ferocity of their hirelings, and in which cannon, muskets, pistols, cutlasses and other deadly weapons were freely used by the mob.