Royal African Company

At the same time, the Royal African Company (a British enslaving company) and other traders of enslaved people were bringing increasing numbers of African men, women, and children to toil in the fields, mills, and houses. The ethnic mix of the population changed accordingly. In the early 1640s there were…

Its successor, the Royal African Company, was founded in 1672 and held the English monopoly until 1698, when all Englishmen received the right to trade in enslaved persons. The Royal African Company continued slaving until 1731, when it abandoned trafficking in humans in favor of ivory and gold…

The Royal African Company was formed in 1672 with a monopoly of the British slave trade, and from that time Jamaica became one of the world’s busiest slave markets, with a thriving smuggling trade to Spanish America. African slaves soon outnumbered Europeans 5 to 1. Jamaica…