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The African Company of Merchants or Company of Merchants Trading to Africa was a British chartered company operating from 1752 to 1821 in the Gold Coast area of modern Ghana, engaged in the Atlantic slave trade.

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African Company of Merchants

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The African Company of Merchants or Company of Merchants Trading to Africa was a British chartered company operating from 1752 to 1821 in the Gold Coast...

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Royal African Company

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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...

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Liverpool slave trade

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List of Liverpool members of the African Company of Merchants The African Company Act 1750 set up the replacement of the Royal African Company with the...

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List of members of the African Company of Merchants

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The African Company of Merchants was established by Act of Parliament as a successor organisation to the Royal African Company in 1752. Provision was made...

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List of committee members of the African Company of Merchants

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The African Company of Merchants was managed by the African Committee, which was composed of nine committee members, three each from London, Liverpool...

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Francis Ingram

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around 34,000 enslaved people, of whom around 5,000 died on his ships. He was a member of the African Company of Merchants. In 1778, the Anglo-French War...

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African Company

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Royal African Company, 17th- and 18th-century English chartered company mainly active in the Atlantic slave trade African Company of Merchants, 18th-...

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African Company Act 1750

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Company and created the African Company of Merchants, to whom the assets of the former were passed. The Royal African Company had been in financial difficulties...

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The company is operating under the auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Transport. Founded in 1872 as the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company in Shanghai...

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distinct companies: that they should divide themselves into two colonies, the one consisting of divers Knights, gentlemen, merchants and others of our cittie...

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Thomas Edward Bowdich

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Bowdich publicly attacked the management of the African committee who ran the African Company of Merchants. His strictures were instrumental in leading...

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Asiento de Negros

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 'agreement of blacks') was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide enslaved Africans to colonies...

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Since 1917, the company has operated as a charity, now working within Russia. The Muscovy Company traces its roots to the Company of Merchant Adventurers...

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Association of West African Merchants

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The Association of West African Merchants (AWAM) was a trade association that sold European goods in the Gold Coast. It was originally formed in 1916...

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History of Ghana

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nations. The Dutch West India Company operated throughout most of the 18th century. The British African Company of Merchants, founded in 1750, was the successor...

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China Merchants Port

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name to China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited, the company was formerly known as China Merchants Holdings (International) Company Limited. On 28...

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geologically part of the African continent. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate...

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The Somers Isles Company (fully, the Company of the City of London for the Plantacion of The Somers Isles or the Company of The Somers Isles) was formed...

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chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during...

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Initially the company was overseen and owned by a small number of notable merchants, businessmen, and nobles in the colony, who would cover the costs of shipping...

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