Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
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Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
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The work Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
- Title remainder
- the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
- Statement of responsibility
- William A. Pettigrew
- Title variation
- Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
- Subject
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- Slave trade -- West Indies, British -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History
- Electronic books
- Slave trade -- Africa -- History
- Royal African Company -- History
- Slave trade -- Africa -- History
- Slave trade -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
- Slave trade -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- NjRocCCS
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- illustrations
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- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT1162
- LC item number
- .P48 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
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- HeinOnline UNC Press law publications
- HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
- HeinOnline prestatehood legal materials
- Target audience
- specialized
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