Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752

"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 g...

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Auteur principal : Pettigrew William Andrew (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 / William A. Pettigrew
Publié : Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (262 p.)
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359 2 |b Prologue: "This African Monster"  |b Part One. Deregulation, 1672-1712  |c The Politics of Slave-Trade Escalation, 1672-1712  |c The Interests : "A Well-Governed Army of Veteran Troops" versus "an Undefinable Heteroclite Body" of "Pirates" and "Buccaneers"  |c The Ideas : Challenging "The Tales of...Mandevil"  |c The Strategies : "As Witches Do the Devil"  |b Part Two. Re-regulation, 1712-1752  |c The Outcomes : Tropical Burlesques  |c The Legacies : Free to Enslave  |b Epilogue: Confused Commemorations  |b Appendix 1: Data Supplements for Annual Slave-Trading Voyages, 1672-1752  |b Appendix 2: A Directory of Independent Slave Traders, 1672-1712  |b Appendix 3: A Directory of Lobbying Independent Traders, 1678-1713  |b Appendix 4: A Directory of Royal African Company Directors, 1672-1750  |b Appendix 5: Africa Trade Petitions to Parliament on the Royal African Company's Monopoly, 1690-1752 
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