| 书目名称 | The Prince of Slavers | | 副标题 | Humphry Morice and t | | 编辑 | Matthew David Mitchell | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Demonstrates why the vast majority of the early independent British slave traders lacked the capital, both financial and informational, to succeed in the slave trade.Analyses Morice‘s voluminous survi | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 captain | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | Humphry Morice; slave trade; transatlantic slave trade; the Middle Passage; British slave traders; Africa | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33839-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-33841-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-33839-8Series ISSN 2662-5164 Series E-ISSN 2662-5172 | | issn_series | 2662-5164 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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