The English in West Africa, 1691-1699
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, Part 3
Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae; 8;
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Product details:
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 21 December 2006
- ISBN 9780197263921
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages719 pages
- Size 241x162x16 mm
- Weight 1090 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps 0
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Short description:
This completes Robin Law's highly acclaimed edition of the letter-books of the Royal African Company, the most substantial body of source material on English trade in West Africa in the late seventeenth century. The correspondence provides massively detailed day-to-day documentation of local operations and interactions.
Long description:
This third volume completes Robin Law's highly acclaimed edition of original correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, relating to the period 1681-1699. The Royal African Company held a legal monopoly of English trade with West Africa, mainly for gold and slaves.
The letter-books comprise correspondence received at the Company's local headquarters in West Africa, Cape Coast Castle, on the Gold Coast (modern Ghana), from its factories and agents elsewhere in the African coast. This material is exceptionally detailed in its coverage of the day-to-day operation of the RAC's trade and its interactions with local African societies.
These documents, published here for the first time, comprise the most substantial body of source material on English trade in West Africa in the late seventeenth century, and are also an important source for indigenous African history.
Robin Law is to be commended for editing the Rawlinson collection in an important, scholarly, three-volume set. More
