Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa

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The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English chartered company
monopoly company
trading company
activity transatlantic slave trade
alsoKnownAs Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
surface form: Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa

Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
surface form: Royal Adventurers into Africa
associatedWith Atlantic world
surface form: English Atlantic empire
charterGrantedBy Charles II of England
charterGrantedIn 1660
conflict Second Anglo-Dutch War
country Kingdom of England
dissolved 1672
foundedBy Charles II of England
English courtiers and merchants
Duke of York
surface form: James, Duke of York
grantedPrivileges exclusive trading rights on the West African coast
right to establish forts and factories in Africa
headquartersLocation London, England
surface form: London
historicalPeriod Stuart period
surface form: Restoration era
historicalSignificance precursor to the Royal African Company in organizing English slave trading ventures
inception 1660
industry overseas trade
slave trade
legalBasis royal charter
legalForm joint-stock company
mainCommodities gold
ivory
redwood
slaves
monopolyGrantedBy Kingdom of England
surface form: English Crown
monopolyOn English trade with West Africa
notableImpact expansion of English forts on the West African coast
precedent for later English chartered trading companies
operatedDuringReignOf Charles II of England
partOf English colonial expansion
patron Duke of York
surface form: James, Duke of York

Prince Rupert of the Rhine
reasonForFailure heavy debts
losses during Anglo-Dutch conflicts
reorganizedAs Royal African Company
roleInHistory early institutionalization of English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade
shareholdersIncluded English nobility
London merchants
successor Royal African Company
tradingRegion The Gambia
surface form: Gambia region

Gold Coast
Guinea Coast
West Africa

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Royal African Company precededBy Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa alsoKnownAs Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
this entity surface form: Royal Adventurers into Africa
Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa alsoKnownAs Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
this entity surface form: Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa
RAC predecessor Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
subject surface form: Royal African Company
RAC successor Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
subject surface form: Royal African Company
this entity surface form: Company of Merchants Trading to Africa