Figures
1.1 Edward Ward, Vulgus Britannicus: or the British Hudibras, London, 1710 15
3.1 The West India Association Network, 1782–1805 59
3.2 The West India Association Network, 1782–1805: number of nodes per two-year period 60
3.3 The West India Association Network, 1782–1805: average weighted degree of select individuals 62
3.4 The West India Association Network, 1782–1805: weighted degree of William Miles and John Gordon Jr 63
3.5 The West India Association Network, 1782–1805: weighted degree of Samuel Span and James Tobin 63
3.6 Sugar imports of leading members of the WIA Network (cwt) 66
3.7 Liverpool Slave Traders Investment Network, 1773–1774 70
3.8 Liverpool Slave Traders Investment Network, 1773–1774 71
3.9 Liverpool Slave Traders Geographical Network, 1774 73
4.1 A force-directed visualisation of the correspondence network, 1630 96
4.2 A force-directed visualisation of the correspondence network, 1630–35 98
6.1 Price current list for New York – 6 December 1756, New York Mercury 133
6.2 Example of entries and clearances – 10 November 1737, Pennsylvania Gazette 136
6.3 Example of news from Lisbon – 11 October 1744, Pennsylvania Gazette 138
6.4 Report from Philadelphia about the post ship going twice weekly – 11 April 1757, New York Mercury 139
7.1 Robert Sayer, View of the Royal Exchange, London, 1751 170
7.2 Simon François Revenant, La Gassette de Londre, 1761 173
9.1 Passport map of part of the Windward Islands, including Barbados, by Jan Luyken (1684–1799), Amsterdam, no date 209
9.2 The Royal Exchange of London, by Wenceslaus Hollar, London, 1644 218
10.1 Map of the Costa da Mina, including European forts, major Akan markets, and the inland locations of gold mining 233
10.2 East India Company letter network in West Africa, including senders and recipients, 1657–63 241
10.3 The Castle Cormantine, by anonymous Dutch print maker, published in London and Amsterdam, 1668–70 243
10.4 Actor network related to East India Company in West Africa, visualising interactions described in correspondence 248
10.5 Cape Coast Castle/Cabo Corso in 1682, etching based on drawing by Henry Greenhill 251
10.6 Crown for the King of Ardra, English by anonymous craftsman, c.1664 253
Tables
3.1 Table showing the number of investors per voyage and the frequency of voyages 69
8.1 Average time taken for letters to John Reynell to arrive, by location of departure, 1750–1752 194