Pedro José de Zulueta

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Pedro José de Zulueta (≈ October 18, 1809 in Cádiz ; † 1882 ) was a British bank director.

Life

His parents were Josefa de Madariaga and Pedro Juan de Zulueta , who founded the trading house Zulueta & Company in London in 1823 . Pedro José de Zulueta married Sofía Ana Wilcox (* Scotland) in 1836. Their four children were Brodie Manuel, Pedro Juan Jose, Francisco a Jesuit and Sofia Josefa de Zulueta († 1925), the mother of Rafael Merry del Val , Domingo Merry del Val y Zulueta and Alfonso Merry del Val y Zulueta . He carried the title Conde de Torre Diaz, created especially for his father .

Augusta affair

After the slaves in Haiti had freed themselves in the wake of the French Revolution , the slave owners were settled in Cuba and slavery experienced a boom there at the beginning of the 19th century. An upswing in which the trading house Zulueta & Company also participated with Julián de Zulueta y Amondo in Havana . In the United Kingdom the slave trade was abolished in 1825, in the fifth year of the reign of George IV (United Kingdom) and there were humanitarian military interventions with the argument "Against the slave trade". In the fight against the slave trade in 1839 was the equipped for the slave trade Golupchick under the flag of Czar I. Nicholas (Russia) and the command of Captain Thomas Bernardo, of HM Frigate Saracen under Captain Henry Worsley Hill in the blockade of the slave-factory Gallinas applied and sent to England. There, on June 10, 1839, the Russian consul in Portsmouth , Louis Vandenberg, jun. the publication and sold them through Thomas Bernardos for 600 pounds sterling to Emanuel Emanuels, who sold them for 650 pounds to Thomas Jennings, who acted as a straw man, as the alleged shipowner.

Pedro de Zulueta paid a check for £ 650 to buy Thomas Bernardos . Thomas Jennings was employed by Pedro Martinez & Co , a notorious slave trader from Cadiz , since 1831 . Pedro Martinez & Co was one of the top-selling slave traders of its time. Disassembled into individual parts and marked for assembly, the Augusta transported a large number of large tanks called Leagores . A number of deck screws to hold mountable slave decks in place were accidentally seen in Portsmouth by a navigation instructor. In Liverpool Thomas Jennings christened the Golupchick in Augusta around and let them equip. The Augusta sailed to Cadiz, where she arrived on December 6, 1841 and put out tobacco for the de Zuleta y Co. department store. In January the Augusta set sail in Cadiz and on February 7, 1841, it was again attacked by the sea ​​blockade off Gallinas.

literature

  • The Trial of Pedro Jose de Zulueta in London for Trading in Slaves In: Hugh Thomas: The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 - 1870. Simon & Schuster, 1999, ISBN 0-684-83565-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.senado.es/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=HISE&DOCN=000002916
  2. ↑ Captain Henry Worsley Hill http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=235
  3. ↑ http://www.pdavis.nl/SL1840.htm
  4. ↑ Annual register 1843
personal data
SURNAME Zulueta, Pedro José de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British banker
DATE OF BIRTH baptized October 18, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Cadiz
DATE OF DEATH 1882