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Hace 4 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 2 días · 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 4 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 3 días · The British began to take an interest in the area, and in 1672, the Royal African Company established trading forts on Bunce and York islands. With the emergence of the slave trade, human beings became the major commodity, and Bunce Island became a prime spot for the transporting of enslaved people to Europe and America.
Hace 2 días · 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.
Hace 3 días · Petition of the Royal African Company to the King. Petitioners have lately received from Thomas Pearson, their chief agent on the Gold Coast of Guinea, the annexed papers, and apprehend that the Director-General of the Hollands West India Company on that coast intends to repeat what he practised in 1662, in order to the exclusion of ...
Hace 3 días · To make immediate restitution to the Royal African Company of the sum of 320l. levied as a custom upon 160 negroes which were sent from Barbadoes to be sold for their own account in the Spanish West Indies.
