Royal African Co of England
Other Business Names:
- Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa
- Company of Merchants Trading to Africa
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
-
Extraction
Gold extraction
-
Merchanting & trade, international & inland
Gold trading & trade
-
Merchanting & trade, international & inland
International trading inc chartered companies activities
-
Slavery & slave trading
Slave trading & trade
Notes:
Traced its origins to the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa formed by royal charter in 1660 which gave it monopoly rights over English trade along west coast of Africa. Traded notably in slaves but also in commodities such as gold, redwood, etc. Struggled and gave up its charter in 1672 when succeeded by Royal African Co of England which then received a charter which gave it similar but broader powers including the right to establish forts and maintain a military force. Between 1662-1731 transported over 200,000 slaves of whom c45,000 died en route. Dissolved 1752 when assets transferred to Company of Merchants Trading to Africa which was wound up in 1821
Publications:
- Account of the Gold Coast of Africa; with a brief history of the Africa Co by Meredith, Henry
- Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England. A study in international trade and economic development by Inikori, Joseph E
- Agent opportunism and the role of company culture. The Hudson's Bay and Royal African Companies compared by Carlos, Ann M
- Bonding and the agency problem. Evidence of the Royal African Co, 1672-1691 by Carlos, Ann M
- Correspondence from the Royal African Company's Factories at Offra and Whydale on the Slave Coast of West Africa ..., 1687-93 by Law, Robin (ed)
- Decline of the Royal African Co. Fringe firms and the role of the charter by Carlos, Ann M, & Jamie B Kruse
- Early Chartered Companies, AD1296-1858 by Cawston, George, & Augustus H Keane
- Empire of Credit. The financial revolutions in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688-1815 by Carey, Daniel, & Christopher J Finlay (eds)
- English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763. Guns, money and lawyers by Wagner, Mike
- Financial acumen, women speculators and the Royal African Company during the South Sea Bubble by Carlos, Ann M, Karen Maguire & Larry Neal
- Freedom's Debt. The Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 by Pettigrew, William A
- Joint stock investment in the later seventeenth century by Davies, Kenneth G
- Learning and the creation of stock market institutions. Evidence from the Hudson's Bay and Royal African Companies, 1670-1700 by Carlos, Ann M, Jennifer Key & Jill Dupree
- 'Money and empire. The failure of the Royal African Company' in D Carey & C J Finlay (eds), Empire of Credit. The financial revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815 by Hermann, Robin
- 'Money and empire. The failure of the Royal African Company' in D Carey & C J Finlay (eds), Empire of Credit. The financial revolutions in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688-1815 by Hermann, Robin
- 'Monopoly, economic thought and the Royal African Co' in J Brewer et al (eds), Early Modern Conceptions of Property by Keirn, Tim
- Organisation of the slave trade in the English West Indies, 1660-85 by Thornton, A P
- Parting companies. The Glorious Revolution, company power and imperial mercantilism by Pettigrew, William A, & George W Van Cleve
- Principal agent problems in early trading companies. A tale of two firms by Carlos, Ann M
- 'Principal agent relations and the decline of the Royal African Co' in E Erikson (ed), Chartering Capitalism. Organizing markets, states and publics by Norton, Matthew
- Royal African Company by Davies, Kenneth G
- Royal African Company share prices during the South Sea Bubble by Carlos, Ann M, Nathalie Moyen & Jonathan Hill
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD1530-1707 by Carr, Cecil T (ed)
- Slave trade to the English West Indies, 1673-1724 by Galenson, David W
- 'Specific information and the English chartered companies, 1650-1750' in L Muller & J Ojala (eds), Information Flows. New approaches in the historical study of business information by Carlos, Ann M, & Santhi Hejeebu
- The Capital and the Colonies. London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 by Zahedieh, Nuala
- The English in West Africa. The local correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699. Part 1, 1681-1683; Part 2, 1685-1688; Part 3, 1691-1699 by Law, Robin (ed)
- Traders, Planters and Slaves. Market behaviour in early English America by Galenson, David W
- Transaction costs of early modern multinational enterprise. Measuring the transatlantic information lag of the British Royal African Co and its successor, 1680-1818 by Ronnback, Klas
- 'Women in the City. Financial acumen during the South Sea Bubble' in A Laurence et al (eds), Women and their Money, 1750-1950. Essays on women and finance by Carlos, Ann M, Karen Maguire & Larry Neal
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa
- Company of Merchants Trading to Africa
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Extraction Gold extraction
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland Gold trading & trade
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland International trading inc chartered companies activities
- Slavery & slave trading Slave trading & trade
Notes:
Traced its origins to the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa formed by royal charter in 1660 which gave it monopoly rights over English trade along west coast of Africa. Traded notably in slaves but also in commodities such as gold, redwood, etc. Struggled and gave up its charter in 1672 when succeeded by Royal African Co of England which then received a charter which gave it similar but broader powers including the right to establish forts and maintain a military force. Between 1662-1731 transported over 200,000 slaves of whom c45,000 died en route. Dissolved 1752 when assets transferred to Company of Merchants Trading to Africa which was wound up in 1821Publications:
- Account of the Gold Coast of Africa; with a brief history of the Africa Co by Meredith, Henry
- Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England. A study in international trade and economic development by Inikori, Joseph E
- Agent opportunism and the role of company culture. The Hudson's Bay and Royal African Companies compared by Carlos, Ann M
- Bonding and the agency problem. Evidence of the Royal African Co, 1672-1691 by Carlos, Ann M
- Correspondence from the Royal African Company's Factories at Offra and Whydale on the Slave Coast of West Africa ..., 1687-93 by Law, Robin (ed)
- Decline of the Royal African Co. Fringe firms and the role of the charter by Carlos, Ann M, & Jamie B Kruse
- Early Chartered Companies, AD1296-1858 by Cawston, George, & Augustus H Keane
- Empire of Credit. The financial revolutions in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688-1815 by Carey, Daniel, & Christopher J Finlay (eds)
- English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763. Guns, money and lawyers by Wagner, Mike
- Financial acumen, women speculators and the Royal African Company during the South Sea Bubble by Carlos, Ann M, Karen Maguire & Larry Neal
- Freedom's Debt. The Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 by Pettigrew, William A
- Joint stock investment in the later seventeenth century by Davies, Kenneth G
- Learning and the creation of stock market institutions. Evidence from the Hudson's Bay and Royal African Companies, 1670-1700 by Carlos, Ann M, Jennifer Key & Jill Dupree
- 'Money and empire. The failure of the Royal African Company' in D Carey & C J Finlay (eds), Empire of Credit. The financial revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815 by Hermann, Robin
- 'Money and empire. The failure of the Royal African Company' in D Carey & C J Finlay (eds), Empire of Credit. The financial revolutions in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688-1815 by Hermann, Robin
- 'Monopoly, economic thought and the Royal African Co' in J Brewer et al (eds), Early Modern Conceptions of Property by Keirn, Tim
- Organisation of the slave trade in the English West Indies, 1660-85 by Thornton, A P
- Parting companies. The Glorious Revolution, company power and imperial mercantilism by Pettigrew, William A, & George W Van Cleve
- Principal agent problems in early trading companies. A tale of two firms by Carlos, Ann M
- 'Principal agent relations and the decline of the Royal African Co' in E Erikson (ed), Chartering Capitalism. Organizing markets, states and publics by Norton, Matthew
- Royal African Company by Davies, Kenneth G
- Royal African Company share prices during the South Sea Bubble by Carlos, Ann M, Nathalie Moyen & Jonathan Hill
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD1530-1707 by Carr, Cecil T (ed)
- Slave trade to the English West Indies, 1673-1724 by Galenson, David W
- 'Specific information and the English chartered companies, 1650-1750' in L Muller & J Ojala (eds), Information Flows. New approaches in the historical study of business information by Carlos, Ann M, & Santhi Hejeebu
- The Capital and the Colonies. London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 by Zahedieh, Nuala
- The English in West Africa. The local correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699. Part 1, 1681-1683; Part 2, 1685-1688; Part 3, 1691-1699 by Law, Robin (ed)
- Traders, Planters and Slaves. Market behaviour in early English America by Galenson, David W
- Transaction costs of early modern multinational enterprise. Measuring the transatlantic information lag of the British Royal African Co and its successor, 1680-1818 by Ronnback, Klas
- 'Women in the City. Financial acumen during the South Sea Bubble' in A Laurence et al (eds), Women and their Money, 1750-1950. Essays on women and finance by Carlos, Ann M, Karen Maguire & Larry Neal