Freedom’s Debt

William A. Pettigrew

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Colonialism, slavery, and trade Race, History, and American Society American Constitutional Law and Politics

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In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company (RAC) by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. This comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC 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, it 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 intercontinental forced migration in history.

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