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3 de may. de 2024 · In 1660, King Charles II of England chartered the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa. This granted its investors a monopoly on English trade in West Africa, mostly for gold. After falling into debt, it reorganized and obtained a new charter in 1672 as the Royal African Company.
Hace 19 horas · 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.
10 de may. de 2024 · He notes how the fierce rivalry among the chartered companies that dominated the trade in the 1600s – the Royal African Company of England and the Dutch West India Company foremost among them – led to open commercial violence and the establishment of the Gold Coast forts including Elmina and Cape Coast Castle.
Hace 3 días · 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.
Hace 5 días · Although Charles II and his brother James, the Duke of York, established the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa at the end of 1660, this did not act to coordinate and centralise the English Empire, but rather divided English commercial and colonising activities in Africa and America from those in Asia, terminating the ...
Hace 5 días · Enslaved Africans were thrown overboard if they were not seen as yielding a financial benefit to the enslavers, as exemplified on the Zong slave ship, where more than one hundred and thirty Africans were thrown overboard in order for the Royal African Company (RAC) that financed the journey to gain the insurance money on each slave. [18]
Hace 4 días · 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 ...
