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Transaction costs of early modern multinational enterprise: measuring the transatlantic information lag of the British Royal African Company and its successor, 1680–1818Business History, 58
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-33838-1
- Pages
- 217 –226
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-33839-8_7
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[Mitchell here sets the career of Humphry Morice in the larger arc of the British transatlantic slave trade’s subsequent development. Slave traders from Bristol, he demonstrates, did indeed enjoy shorter overall voyage times—primarily meaning shorter loading times in African ports—than did those from London throughout the 1730s. Their dominance then gave way to that of slave traders from Liverpool, who continued to build on Morice’s insights about the importance of African market information—and of innovating to lower the costs of getting that information—in order to assemble their outbound cargoes and ensure short stays on the coast. Morice therefore set the initial pattern for large-scale individual investment in the trade during the decades after the revocation of the Royal African Company monopoly.]
Published: Feb 5, 2020