An edition of Freedom's debt (2013)

Freedom's debt

the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752

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Freedom's debt
William A. Pettigrew
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An edition of Freedom's debt (2013)

Freedom's debt

the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752

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"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 the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history. Unlike previous histories of the RAC, Pettigrew's study pursues the Company's story beyond the trade's complete deregulation in 1712 to its demise in 1752. Opening the trade led to its escalation, which provided a reliable supply of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, thus playing a critical part in entrenching African slavery as the colonies' preferred solution to the American problem of labor supply"--

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English
Pages
262

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Table of Contents

Prologue: "This African monster"
Part one. Deregulation, 1672-1712
The politics of slave-trade escalation, 1672-1712
The interests : "A well-governed army of veteran troops" versus "an undefinable heteroclite body" of "Pirates" and "Buccaneers"
The ideas : Challenging "The tales of...Mandevil"
The strategies : "As witches do the devil"
Part two. Re-regulation, 1712-1752
The outcomes : Tropical burlesques
The legacies : Free to enslave
Epilogue: Confused commemorations
Appendix 1: Data supplements for annual slave-trading voyages, 1672-1752
Appendix 2: A directory of independent slave traders, 1672-1712
Appendix 3: A directory of lobbying independent traders, 1678-1713
Appendix 4: A directory of Royal African Company directors, 1672-1750
Appendix 5: Africa trade petitions to Parliament on the Royal African Company's monopoly, 1690-1752.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2013

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.3/6209
Library of Congress
HT1162 .P48 2013, HT1162.P48 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
262 pages
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26886628M
ISBN 10
1469611813
ISBN 13
9781469611815
LCCN
2013037641
OCLC/WorldCat
838415692

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