Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/springer-journals/the-prince-of-slavers-morice-s-beginnings-1704-1719-Ypju0Iku5h
References (22)
-
F. Fuglestad (2018)
Slave Traders by Invitation -
J. Mann (1971)
The Cloth Industry in the West of England: From 1640 to 1880 -
K. Morgan (2005)
Remittance Procedures in the Eighteenth-Century British Slave TradeBusiness History Review, 79
-
Broadus Mitchell (1988)
British Historical Statistics -
R. Sparks (2014)
Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade -
Sheryllynne Haggerty (2009)
Risk and risk management in the Liverpool slave tradeBusiness History, 51
-
R. Shumway (2011)
The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -
J. Smail (1999)
Merchants, Markets aand Manufacturers -
M. Lindemann (2014)
The Merchant Republics -
A. Russell-Wood (1977)
Technology and Society: The Impact of Gold Mining on the Institution of Slavery in Portuguese AmericaThe Journal of Economic History, 37
-
David Hancock (2009)
Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste -
James Rawley (1981)
London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade -
M. Mitchell (2013)
Three English Cloth Towns and the Royal African CompanyJournal of The Historical Society, 13
-
Perry Gauci (2007)
Emporium of the World: the Merchants of London 1660-1800 -
Rowena Olegario (2006)
A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business -
James Pritchard (2005)
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden AgeThe Journal of American History, 92
-
Arne Bialuschewski (2004)
Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel Mist, and the "General History of the Pyrates"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 98
-
William Snelgrave (1971)
A new account of some parts of Guinea and the slave-trade -
J. Walvin (2013)
Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade -
D. Eltis (1999)
The Rise of African Slavery in the AmericasCanadian Journal of African Studies, 36
-
R. Grassby (1995)
The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England -
Sheryllynne Haggerty (2011)
The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern PeriodJournal of Early Modern History, 15
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-33838-1
- Pages
- 93 –129
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-33839-8_4
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[A look at Humphry Morice’s antecedents and early career in the European coastal trades reveals his longstanding emphasis on delivering high-quality goods as quickly as possible. Bringing this emphasis into the African trade, Morice over the years devised and perfected his multiple-ship strategy. By having his ships work together, Morice was able to have many of them return directly to England, speeding his cycles of working capital while staying in constant contact with what African merchants wanted in exchange for the goods and slaves they offered. Meanwhile, Morice responded to the rising threat of piracy by accepting that some of his ships would inevitably be taken, rather than investing in costly and ultimately unprofitable additional security.]
Published: Feb 5, 2020