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Hace 2 días · The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Hace 4 días · Its predecessor, the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa, had been founded in 1660, on the wreckage of several earlier African companies. Originally, the Adventurers did not engage in the slave trade per se, although in 1663, when a new charter was obtained, they turned their efforts in that direction.
Hace 4 días · September 1672. Sept. 5. 919. Grant to Robert Clowes of the office of Chief Clerk to attend the Supreme Court in St. Jago de La Vega in Jamaica, with power to sign writs, decrees, and keep records by himself or deputy during life, with all profits thereto belonging ( see No. 924). [ Dom.
Hace 1 día · Eventually, the company ended the trade in 1834 after numerous legal threats from the British state and the Royal Navy in the form of the West Africa Squadron, which discovered various ships had contained evidence of the illegal trade.
Hace 2 días · To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for allowing further Time to the Commissioners appointed by and in Pursuance of an Act of the Twenty-third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for extending and improving the Trade to Africa ," to inquire into the Claims of certain Creditors of the Royal African Company, therein mentioned, and for the Relief of David Crichton, and for ...
Hace 3 días · Join the Royal African Society and Edinburgh University for a wide-ranging look at the Prospects and Forecasts for Africa in 2024. An expert panel will examine the political, economic, climatic and cultural outlook for Africa in the year ahead at the University of Edinburgh on the 6th February.
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.
