Freedom's Debt : The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- PROLOGUE: "This African Monster" -- Part One. Deregulation, 1672-1712 -- ONE: The Politics of Slave-Trade Escalation, 1672-1712 -- TWO: The Interests: "A Well-Governed Army of Veteran Troops" versus "an Undefinable Heteroclite Body" of "Pirates" and "Buccaneers" -- THREE: The Ideas: Challenging the "Tales of . . . Mandevil" -- FOUR: The Strategies: "As Witches Do the Devil" -- Part Two. Re-regulation, 1712-1752 -- FIVE: The Outcomes: Tropical Burlesques -- SIX: 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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