William de la Founte

William de la Founte (died 1495) was a Bristol merchant who became one of the first English entrepreneurs to profit from the slave trade.

de la Founte had established his business interests in Lisbon and from 1480 also in Huelva, Andalusia. He participated in the trafficking of slaves to the soap industry in Lower Andalusia.[1]

de la Founte provided surety for Wiliam Weston in 1490.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Ungerer, Gustav (2008). The Mediterranean Apprenticeship of British Slavery. Madrid: Verbun. p. 17.
  2. ↑ Dalton, Heather (2012), "'"Into speyne to selle for slavys": English, Spanish, and Genoese Merchant Networks and Their Involvement with the "Cost of Gwynea" Trade before 1550'", in Green, Toby, Brokers Of Change: Atlantic Commerce And Cultures In Pre-Colonial Western Africa, Oxford: British Academy Proceedings Series


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