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William A. Pettigrew - Freedom´s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 - 9781469629858 - V9781469629858
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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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Description for Freedom´s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 Paperback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629858
SKU
V9781469629858
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About William A. Pettigrew
William A. Pettigrew is lecturer in history at the University of Kent, UK.

Reviews for Freedom´s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752
[Freedom's Debt] will be a standard source for specialists for many years to come.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History Well researched and coherently organized...convincing, compelling, and important...Freedom's Debt does for English history something like what Edmund S. Morgan did for American history in American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
William and Mary Quarterly Pettigrew's fascinating and well-researched book is an ... Read more

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