Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading with Africa and successors : records

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Ranging from account books kept in London to daily diary entries made in West African forts, from shipping and other administrative records to letters written by officials, merchants, and many othe...

Ranging from account books kept in London to daily diary entries made in West African forts, from shipping and other administrative records to letters written by officials, merchants, and many other individuals, the documents in this collection record activities of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on the British slave trade from 1663 to 1698 and subsequently competed with other companies in the escalating transatlantic traffic of the following century. The records of the Company from 1660 to 1883 are kept in the British National Archive. Items collected here date mainly from the late seventeenth century through the first half of the eighteenth century.

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