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Há 6 dias · In 1707–1708, the Royal African Company, the English chartered corporation, was committed to keeping a minimum stock of 1,000 tons of iron on the West African Coast for trading purposes: about 176 tons for Upper Guinea, 865 tons for the Gold Coast, and an unspecified amount for the Bight of Benin.
Há 1 dia · The Royal African Company usually refused to deliver slaves to Spanish colonies, though they did sell them to all comers from their factories in Kingston, Jamaica and Bridgetown, Barbados.: 451 In 1682, Spain allowed governors from Havana, Porto Bello, Panama, and Cartagena, Colombia to procure slaves from Jamaica.
23 de mai. de 2024 · The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast.
Há 1 dia · 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.
13 de mai. de 2024 · “Many of the records of the Royal Africa Company that have remained intact from the 17th and early 18th century attest to the persistent issue of piracy and plunder in the slave trade,” wrote Angela Sutton in her Master of Arts in History thesis at Vanderbilt University over a decade ago.
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.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Another was found off Falmouth in 2019, 110m (361ft) underwater on a Royal African Company trader wreck. The ship was believed to have been involved in the West Africa slave trade in the...
