‘The partnership of Duncan Campbell and Sir Joseph Banks owned plantations and a Mercantile house in Jamaica. The company traded in slaves, sugar, rum and molasses as well as the normal goods to West Africa.’ There is some evidence the their merchant ship Bethia was renamed H.M.S. ‘Bounty’ when bought by the Navy for the breadfruit expedition. The perishable human cargo required the ships entering ports at night as shown here where Berthia leads the way with both vessels dangerously under full sail. The year 1792 saw some eighty thousand slaves transported across the Atlantic. The menace of the grim trade is here reinforced by the style of the decoration.