LEADER 04691nam 2200745 450 001 9910788486203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908856-3-0 010 $a1-4696-1182-1 010 $a1-4696-1183-X 035 $a(CKB)3170000000070160 035 $a(EBL)4322204 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001260877 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11742161 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001260877 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11311360 035 $a(PQKB)11006024 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000883151 035 $a(OCoLC)879306121 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4322204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149913 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929695 035 $a(WsH)freedbt 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322204 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000070160 100 $a20160209h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom's debt $ethe Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 /$fWilliam A. Pettigrew 210 1$aChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 1 $aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4696-2985-2 311 $a1-4696-1181-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: "This African Monster" -- Part One. Deregulation, 1672-1712 -- The Politics of Slave-Trade Escalation, 1672-1712 -- The Interests : "A Well-Governed Army of Veteran Troops" versus "an Undefinable Heteroclite Body" of "Pirates" and "Buccaneers" -- The Ideas : Challenging "The Tales of...Mandevil" -- The Strategies : "As Witches Do the Devil" -- Part Two. Re-regulation, 1712-1752 -- The Outcomes : Tropical Burlesques -- 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. 330 2 $a"In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history. Unlike previous histories of the RAC, Pettigrew's study pursues the Company's story beyond the trade's complete deregulation in 1712 to its demise in 1752. Opening the trade led to its escalation, which provided a reliable supply of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, thus playing a critical part in entrenching African slavery as the colonies' preferred solution to the American problem of labor supply"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 606 $aSlave trade$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aSlave trade$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSlave trade$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aSlave trade$zWest Indies, British$xHistory 606 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aSlave trade$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSlave trade$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory. 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory. 615 0$aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$xHistory. 676 $a306.36209 686 $aHIS015000$aHIS036020$aSOC054000$2bisacsh 700 $aPettigrew$b William A$g(William Andrew),$f1978-$01545706 712 02$aInstitute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788486203321 996 $aFreedom's debt$93800764 997 $aUNINA