## ***TRADE AND PERSECUTION: THREE MERCHANTS BETWEEN LISBON AND LONDON***## ***SEPHARDIC WORLD, SUNDAY – 13 FEBRUARY 2022 - WITH CARLA VIEIRA****The trajectories of Gabriel Lopes Pinheiro, Diogo de Aguilar and Fernando Dias Fernandes*In February 1723, thirteen New Christian/Jewish merchants and businesses signed the paperwork of a ship transporting gold to the merchant John Goodall in England. At the time, most of the gold entering the English market came from Brazil via Lisbon. These merchants were part of a group of 56 businessmen involved in Anglo-Portuguese commerce. Looking at the thirteen names, we find the Pereira & Lima and the Joseph & Daniel Viana partnerships, as well as a merchant named Miguel Viana. Behind these names are Diogo Lopes Pereira, alias Diego de Aguilar (later, Baron d'Aguilar), Gabriel Lopes Pinheiro, and Fernando Dias Fernandes, three Iberian merchants that had arrived in London a few years before.The Portuguese Inquisition had caused them to leave Portugal and rebuild their lives and businesses in London (and, in the case of Diego d'Aguilar, also in Vienna). They were part of an influx that impacted the Jewish community of London in the early 18th Century. Their lives reveal the motivations, dynamics, and consequences of this migration. ***Carla Vieira*** will discuss their crisscrossed trajectories, which illustrate the impact of the Inquisition on this group of Lisbon merchants and the pattern of the Sephardic 18th Century migration to London.***Carla Vieira*** is a senior researcher at the CHAM – Center for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also a researcher at the Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste (School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Lisboa) and editor of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas. Her research has focused on the history of conversos in Portugal and the Western Sephardic diaspora in the Atlantic space. At the moment, she is developing the post-doctoral project "Nation between Empires. Sephardic Diaspora and the Anglo-Portuguese alliance (first half of the 18th century)", sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/109606/2015). She is also the principal investigator of the project Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap.The meeting is on Sunday 13 February 2022, at 11am in LA, 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Paris/Amsterdam, and 9pm Jerusalem. Patrons can join us on Zoom. The link is shared at our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/sephardiEveryone is invited to join us for free at: https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory/ Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. It helps us a lot and reminds you when we are going live!Over the last two years, Sephardic World has become the leading forum for learning about Sephardic history and genealogy. We have no commercial sponsorship or public funding. There is no charge to attend our meetings or to view our content. If you are not a patron and can afford it, please consider supporting our work: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi*Best wishes,**Ton and David**Sephardic World**Image: Lisbon Harbour, early 18th Century, Lisbon Town Museum, Lisbon, Portugal*