Royal African Company.
English trading company (1660–1752) granted a monopoly on West African trade; became the largest carrier of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic slave trade; also traded in gold and ivory on the Gold Coast
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The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. It was overseen by the Duke of York, the brother of Charles II of England; the RAC was founded after Charles II ascended to the English throne in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, and he granted it a monopoly on all English trade with Africa. While the company's original purpose was to trade for gold in the Gambia River, as Prince Rupert of the Rhine had identified gold deposits in the region during the Interregnum, the RAC quickly considered enslaved humans as commodity and began trading in them.
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- Kingdom of England
- Inception
- 1660