LEADER 04193nam 22006015 450 001 9910380757503321 005 20220228194144.0 010 $a3-030-33839-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-33839-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000010159700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6037731 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-33839-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010159700 100 $a20200204d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Prince of Slavers $eHumphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698?1732 /$fby Matthew David Mitchell 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the History of Finance,$x2662-5164 311 $a3-030-33838-X 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade under the Royal African Company Monopoly -- Chapter 3: Morice?s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders -- Chapter 4: Morice?s Beginnings:1704-1719 -- Chapter 5: Morice at the Peak, 1720-1727 -- Chapter 6: Morice?s Catastrophe, 1728-1731 and Beyond -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Morice's Africa Voyages: An Annotated List. 330 $a?A wonderful achievement... smart, beautifully written, interesting, informative. Morice himself is an intriguing character... We have so few really rich studies of individual slave traders that this too is a major contribution.? ?Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University, USA Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company (RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previously enjoyed over the trade. During the early eighteenth-century transition between these two better-studied periods, Humphry Morice was by far the most prolific of the British slave traders. He bears the guilt for trafficking over 25,000 enslaved Africans, and his voluminous surviving papers offer intriguing insights into how he did it. Morice?s strategy was well adapted for managing the special risks of the trade, and for duplicating, at lower cost, the RAC?s capabilities for gathering information on what African slave-sellers wanted in exchange. Still, Morice?s transatlantic operations were expensive enough to drive him to a series of increasingly dubious financial manoeuvres throughout the 1720s, and eventually to large-scale fraud in 1731 from the Bank of England, of which he was a longtime director. He died later that year, probably by suicide, and with his estate hopelessly indebted to the Bank, his family, and his ship captains. Nonetheless, his astonishing rise and fall marked a turning point in the development of the brutal transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans. This book is an invaluable read for scholars of financial and commercial history. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the History of Finance,$x2662-5164 606 $aFinance$xHistory 606 $aTrade 606 $aBusiness 606 $aCommerce 606 $aFinancial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/617000 606 $aTrade$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/527010 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aFinance$xHistory. 615 0$aTrade. 615 0$aBusiness. 615 0$aCommerce. 615 14$aFinancial History. 615 24$aTrade. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 676 $a306.362 676 $a941 700 $aMitchell$b Matthew David$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0881861 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910380757503321 996 $aThe Prince of Slavers$91969859 997 $aUNINA