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1 online resource |
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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Royal African Company -- History.
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Royal African Company. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History.
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Slavery -- Law and legislation. |
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Great Britain. |
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Slave trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
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Slave trade. |
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Slave trade -- Africa -- History.
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Africa. |
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Slave trade -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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18th century |
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Electronic books.
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pettigrew, William A. (William Andrew), 1978- Freedom's debt. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013] 9781469611815 (DLC) 2013037641 (OCoLC)838415692 |
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9781469611839 electronic book |
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146961183X electronic book |
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9781469611822 electronic book |
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1469611821 electronic book |
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9781469611815 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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1469611813 |
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