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- This publication was made possible by the European Research Council. ERC project FIGHT – Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: A Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, grant agreement ID 312657.
Cover illustration: Two British Slave-ships at Christiansborg, by George Webster (1800), Danish Maritime Museum, Copenhagen. Image in the public domain.
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Names: Svalastog, Julie M., author.
Title: Mastering the worst of trades : England’s early Africa companies and their traders, 1618-1672 / by Julie M. Svalastog.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Atlantic world, 1570-0542 ; vol.39 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020055056 (print) | LCCN 2020055057 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004440821 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004446212 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Slave trade–Africa–History–17th century. | Slave trade–England–History–17th century. Classification: LCC HT1322 .S93 2021 (print) | LCC HT1322 (ebook) | DDC 306.3/62094209032–dc23
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