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The Prince of Slavers - Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698-1732 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Prince of Slavers - Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698-1732 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has
focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its
abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company
(RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previously enjoyed
over the trade. During the early eighteenth-century transition
between these two better-studied periods, Humphry Morice was by far
the most prolific of the British slave traders. He bears the guilt
for trafficking over 25,000 enslaved Africans, and his voluminous
surviving papers offer intriguing insights into how he did it.
Morice's strategy was well adapted for managing the special risks
of the trade, and for duplicating, at lower cost, the RAC's
capabilities for gathering information on what African
slave-sellers wanted in exchange. Still, Morice's transatlantic
operations were expensive enough to drive him to a series of
increasingly dubious financial manoeuvres throughout the 1720s, and
eventually to large-scale fraud in 1731 from the Bank of England,
of which he was a longtime director. He died later that year,
probably by suicide, and with his estate hopelessly indebted to the
Bank, his family, and his ship captains. Nonetheless, his
astonishing rise and fall marked a turning point in the development
of the brutal transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
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