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The Prince of SlaversPrologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade Under the Royal African Company Monopoly

The Prince of Slavers: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade Under the Royal African Company... [Laying a baseline for the study of Humphry Morice’s method of trading, Mitchell studies the methods used by the Royal African Company (RAC) between its chartering in 1672 and the loss of its monopoly in 1698. This chapter establishes that the main problem facing any European trader in Africa was the problem of discovering what African merchants wanted to buy in exchange for the commodities and enslaved persons they offered. By maintaining and staffing permanent trading posts on the coast, the Royal African Company built a strong position in this market; however, the heavy cost of this strategy consumed most of the trade’s potential profits. It also left room for new market entrants to innovate cheaper methods of solving the basic informational problem.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Prince of SlaversPrologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade Under the Royal African Company Monopoly

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Springer International Publishing
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© 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
9 –50
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-33839-8_2
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[Laying a baseline for the study of Humphry Morice’s method of trading, Mitchell studies the methods used by the Royal African Company (RAC) between its chartering in 1672 and the loss of its monopoly in 1698. This chapter establishes that the main problem facing any European trader in Africa was the problem of discovering what African merchants wanted to buy in exchange for the commodities and enslaved persons they offered. By maintaining and staffing permanent trading posts on the coast, the Royal African Company built a strong position in this market; however, the heavy cost of this strategy consumed most of the trade’s potential profits. It also left room for new market entrants to innovate cheaper methods of solving the basic informational problem.]

Published: Feb 5, 2020

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