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The case of the creditors of the Royal African Company of England

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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The Royal African Company was a mercantile company established by the Royal Stuart family, managed by the Duke of York, to exploit the West African gold fields. It also engaged with the slave trade. Establishments were made with forts and settlements on the West African coast to serve as staging and trading stations. Eight pamphlets: Reasons in support of the proposal for preserving, extending, and protecting the British trade in Africa; Proposals for settling and preserving the British trade to Africa; At a general court of the Royal African Company of England; Reasons for settling the trade to Africa upon the foot of a free and open trade to all his Majesty’s subjects; The case of the creditors of the Royal African Company (two documents); The case of the Royal African Company of England; Answers to the objections against the proposals of the Royal African Company for settling the trade to Africa in a second letter to a member of Parliament.
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Documents
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Royal African Company
Created Date:
1751
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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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