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By William A. Pettigrew

ISBN-10: 1469611813

ISBN-13: 9781469611815

ISBN-10: 1469629852

ISBN-13: 9781469629858

within the years following the wonderful Revolution, autonomous slave investors challenged the constitution of the Royal African corporation by means of saying their typical rights as Britons to alternate freely in enslaved Africans. during this entire historical past of the increase and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave exchange in politics, no longer financial forces, examining the ideological arguments of the RAC and its competitors in Parliament and in public debate. eventually, Pettigrew powerfully purposes that freedom turned the rallying cry when you wanted to take part within the slave exchange and as a result reinforced the growth of the most important intercontinental pressured migration in history.
in contrast to earlier histories of the RAC, Pettigrew's learn pursues the Company's tale past the trade's entire deregulation in 1712 to its death in 1752. commencing the alternate ended in its escalation, which supplied a competent provide of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, therefore enjoying a severe half in entrenching African slavery because the colonies' hottest way to the yankee challenge of work supply.

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