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Defunct. 1752 (1752) Key people. James II, Charles II. Products. Gold, silver, ivory, humans. 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. [1] It was overseen by the Duke of York, the brother of Charles II of England;
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 2 días · 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.
Hace 2 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.
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 2 días · When Freeman entered its employ in the early-1670s, the mandate of the Royal African Company was fairly straightforward. Its predecessor, the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa, had been founded in 1660, on the wreckage of several earlier African companies.
Hace 4 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 ...
