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Thomas Walker was born 1758 in Henbury, now a suburb of Bristol, England.
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Walker worked as a slave trader, when Bristol was one of the three major slave trading ports in Britain. He served as a slave ship Captain and was resident slave trader who operated in the Sierra Leone region of West Africa. He did much of his slave trading at Bunce Island, a British slave castle in the Sierra Leone River, owned at that time by the Company of John & Alexander Anderson, based in London.
He was involved in at least eleven slave trading voyages between 1784 and 1792, taking African captives from Sierra Leone to the British West Indies and the United States.
Walker was murdered in 1797 at sea in a mutiny. He is an ancestor of two United States. presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush.
