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Há 3 dias · In 1672, the Royal African Company received a new charter from Charles II. It set up forts and factories, maintained troops, and exercised martial law in West Africa in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and African slaves.
Há 2 dias · In South Africa Cecil Rhodes formed the British South Africa Company, which received its charter in October 1889. Its objects were (1) to extend the railway from Kimberley northward to the Zambezi, (2) to encourage immigration and colonization, (3) to promote trade and commerce, and (4) to secure all mineral rights, in return for ...
Há 5 dias · Some companies like the East India Company (the most famous), the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Royal African Company ruled large colonial possessions (especially in India), but the Hudson's Bay Company took control of the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Canada as Rupert's Land, and the Royal African Company started to ship slaves from West Africa ...
Há 1 dia · Locke's views on slavery were multifaceted. Although he wrote against slavery in general, Locke was an investor and beneficiary of the slave-trading Royal Africa Company.
Há 4 dias · The original Blackwall Yard was created by the East India Company for the building and repair of its own ships. In the 1650s it passed into private hands, and under successive owners developed into one of the largest and most celebrated mercantile shipyards on the Thames (Plate 94a).
Há 1 dia · "8 An Act for allowing further Time to the Commissioners appointed by and in Pursuance of an Act of the Twenty-third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, in intituled, "An Act for extending and improving the Trade to Africa," to inquire into the Claims of certain Creditors of the Royal African Company therein mentioned, and for the Relief of David Crichton, and for restraining the said Company ...
Há 4 dias · The Duke was possessed of the fort St. Andrea, at the mouth of the Gambia, which he sold to the Dutch in February 1660. The King granted in 1661 Letters Patent to the Royal African Company, which were confirmed in 1662.
