The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752
by
William A. Pettigrew
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds...