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 g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pettigrew, William A. (William Andrew), 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Colección:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Temas:
Royal African Company > History.
Royal African Company.
1600-1799
Slavery > Law and legislation > Great Britain > History.
Slave trade > West Indies, British > History.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
Slave trade > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Esclaves > Commerce > Antilles britanniques > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Slave trade.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Africa.
Great Britain.
West Indies > British West Indies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469611839
146961183X
9781469611822
1469611821
9781469629858
1469629852

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