1730-Sept.-30: London merchant Humphry Morice provided detailed instructions to Captain Thomas Hill of the Anne Gally regarding the purchase of captives on t…

1730-Sept.-30: London merchant Humphry Morice provided detailed instructions to Captain Thomas Hill of the Anne Gally regarding the purchase of captives on the African coast. Morice urged his captain to sell both goods and “Negroes” to Portuguese traders in exchange for gold, noting that the Portuguese brought gold from Brazil specifically for this purpose. He emphasized that captives were a “perishable Commodity” and that converting the entire cargo into gold for a direct return to London was highly desirable. These instructions illustrate the complex inter-imperial financial networks that allowed gold from the Brazilian mines to circulate through the Atlantic slave trade.