TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
A1  - Pettigrew, William A., kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2495077
AB  - 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.
SN  - 9781469611815 sidottu
KW  - Royal African Company : History.
KW  - 1600-luku
KW  - 1700-luku
KW  - Slavery : Law and legislation : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Slave-trade : Political aspects : Great Britain : History : 17th century.
KW  - Slave-trade : Political aspects : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Slave-trade : Africa : History.
KW  - Slave-trade : West Indies, British : History.
KW  - orjakauppa
KW  - politiikka
KW  - Afrikka
KW  - Iso-Britannia
ER  -