Mastering the Worst of Trades: England's Early Africa Companies and their Traders, 1618-1672

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Bibliography
Foundations
Bibliography
Chapter 1 Launching the Guinea Company, 1618–1630
1 Introduction
2 Members of the Early Guinea Company
2.1 Discoverers and Naval Men
2.2 Court Connections and Financial Trouble
3 The Two Merchants
3.1 John Davies
3.2 Humphrey Slaney
4 The Company in Court
5 Internal Strife
6 The End of the First Patent
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Fit for Purpose: the Guinea Company in the 1630s and 1640s
1 Introduction
2 Format of Trade
3 John Wood and the Guinea Company of the 1640s
4 A 1640s Snapshot
5 Early English Slave Trade – Formal and Informal
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3 The Honourable Guinea and East India Company, 1640–1663
1 Introduction
2 Why the Coast of Guinea?
3 Potential for Connection
4 Renegotiating the Patent
4.1 Samuel Vassal’s Suggestions and Changes to the Patent
4.2 An Unfortunate Gambian Adventure
4.3 Gold Mining
5 1657 to 1664: the United East India and Guinea Company on the Coast of Africa
6 The Loss of the Trade
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4 The Official Push to the West: How to Control the Atlantic?
1 Introduction
2 Practices of the Past, the Case of Virginia
3 The English Civil War
4 A New approach to Colonial Management
5 The Restoration
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 5 Royal Adventurers and the Spanish Asiento
1 Introduction
2 The Company of Royal Adventures Trading into Africa
3 Securing the Asiento
4 Servicing the Asiento
5 English Slave Trading under the Asiento
6 Winding Up the Company
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix 1 Africa Company Members
Appendix 2 Debtors to the Guinea Company from June 1643 to June 1644
Primary Archival Material
The National Archive, London, UK
Published Primary Material
Bibliography
Index