Thomas Foxcroft (slave trader)

[2] A contemporary set of financial accounts for one slave voyage by his slave-ship Bloom has been preserved.

The Welch family were prominent in the slave trade and it is this link that is the likely reason for Foxcroft to move to Liverpool.

A contemporary set of financial accounts for a slave voyage by Bloom in 1784 exists.

The accounts offer insight into the costs, profit, cargo and the purported value of the enslaved people it transported.

[5] Robert Bostock the captain of Bloom bought 349 enslaved people from the Windward Coast of Africa and transported them to the West Indies to be sold.

[5] Gomer Williams writes that the cost of buying an enslaved person in Africa in 1798–1799 was £20 to £25, with a sale price in the West Indies of £70 (equivalent to £11,000 in 2023), concluding that Foxcroft made a very large profit at the expense of the captive Africans.

HMS Hyaena quickly recaptured her brought her into Kingston, where the King Grey and her cargo of captives were sold; her captain and crew were also rescued.