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26 de may. de 2024 · 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.
23 de may. 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.
29 de may. de 2024 · These letter-books of the Royal African Company of England, which held a legal monopoly of English trade with West Africa, detail the daily operations of the company and its interactions with the local African societies of the Gold Coast, notably Ghana, in the late 17th century.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2020
Hace 6 días · Through nine detailed and beautifully written chapters, Roper surveys the full scope of English overseas interests – in America, Africa, and Asia – convincingly arguing that private interests were the primary agents behind English colonial expansion before (and after) the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
24 de may. de 2024 · The elephant, with or without a howdah, was the emblem of the Royal African Company (RAC), which had been granted a monopoly on English trade with Africa in slaves, gold and other goods, from 1672 until 1698; gold imported from Africa by the RAC bore the elephant emblem beneath the monarch's head on the coin.
25 de may. de 2024 · Holmes is chiefly remembered for his exploits on the cruise to Guinea (1664) for the Royal African Company, and for the so-called Holmes's Bonfire of 1666. He is regarded as an archetypal figure both of the quarrelsome restoration officer and of the coming into being of the British professional naval officer .
Hace 4 días · Account of the Limits and Trade of the Royal African Company. The company's limits under his Majesty's Charter begin at Sally in South Barbary near Tangier, and end at Cabo Buen Esperança, where the East India Company's limits take place.
