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...

as the United African Company and renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929, the company became part of...

slave trade. The company was established by the African Company Act 1750 (24 Geo. 2. c. 49), and in 1752 replaced the Royal African Company which had been...

African Company may refer to: Guinea Company (London), also known as the Company of Adventurers of London Trading to the Ports of Africa Royal African...

Parliament and philanthropist. He was also a key figure in the Royal African Company, which was involved in the Atlantic slave trade. He was born in...

granted to "New Royal African Company" on 27 September 1672 by Charles II, superseding the "Company of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa", chartered on...

Portuguese East India Company Royal African Company Royal Greenland Trading Department Royal Philippine Company Samuel Samuel & Co Shewan, Tomes & Co...

rights of the Royal Adventurers to the Gambia were sublet to the Gambia Adventurers but later reverted to the new Royal African Company. 1677 saw the...

1664–1674 Royal West Indian Company 1670 Hudson's Bay Company 1672 Royal African Company 1691 Hollow Sword Blade Company 1693 Greenland Company 1694 Bank...

The African Company Act 1750 (24 Geo. 2. c. 49) was an act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain which dissolved the Royal African Company and created...

Luso-African community that had developed along the lower rivers. This class acted as middlemen, resisting efforts by the Royal African Company to monopolise...

The main focus of the company at first was trading with the Niger River area and other west African ports, bringing west-African palm oil back to Britain...

connections to colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade via the Royal African Company. Reparations for slavery emerged as a major demand of protesters...

1692 he was a member of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on the English trade along the west coast of Africa, in slaves, gold, silver and...

slave-trading Royal African Company, where he was one of 198 stockholders, entitling him to a single vote. Elected Master of the Haberdashers' Company, he was...

decimated the English population. On 24 May, James dissolved the company and made Virginia a royal colony from England with propertied male colonists retaining...

Arabic to Africa to send to his father. Eventually, the letter reached the office of James Oglethorpe, Director of the Royal African Company. After having...

African transported to the French West Indies upon their return to France. After the introduction of the Trade with Africa Act 1697 the Royal African...

East Africa Company (IBEAC) was a commercial association founded to develop African trade in the areas controlled by the British Empire. The company was...

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

1694 until 1700 largely between the Dutch West India Company and the English Royal African Company in the Eguafo Kingdom in the present day state of Ghana...

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...

trade rise when the Royal African Company (RAC) constructed a fort there in 1650. Whydah troops pushed their way into the African interior, capturing...

Queen’s African Rifles. In reality, there was never a military unit called “The Royal African Rifles”, although the King's African Rifles served in Africa during...

The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; Russian: Московская компания, romanized: Moskovskaya kompaniya) was...

merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. The combined company rapidly...

the African Lakes Company which was operating in Nyasaland. On 29 October 1889, a Royal Charter authorised the formation of the British South Africa Company's...

"European traders captured some Africans in raids along the coast, but bought most of them from local African or African-European dealers." Many European...

the ‘Royal African Company’, of whom Carteret was a consultant and early minor investor. The Royal African Company went on to ship more African slaves...

African colonies until 1819, when the four companies serving in Sierra Leone and Gambia were disbanded. Prior to 1817 several companies of the Royal African...