This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African
descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its …

From 1750 to 1821, Britain's Company of Merchants Trading to Africa relied upon its company
slaves to fulfil its mission of facilitating Britain's African trade. Company slavery was a …

In early 1787, as American vessels flooded the Gold Coast with rum and as the French worked
to extend their coastal position, the Cape Coast Castle governor Thomas Price, reported …

In 1750, Parliament created the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa to facilitate Britain's
African trade by maintaining a series of beneficial coastal structures and relations. Along …

… For more on labor at Cape Coast see Ty M. Reese, “The Drudgery of the Slave Trade: Labor
… and consequences of these goods along the Gold Coast see Reese, “‘Eating’ Luxury.” …

That it is necessary from our present weakness to keep black men of power in our pay, that
through their influence, we may live in peace and amity with the natives who would otherwise …

[...] Weiser's nuanced model involves the fact that neither participation nor distance was a
constant; rather, each could serve various political goals, thereby creating a more nuanced …

From the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century, over 10.7 million Africans, predominately
from the Senegal and Gambia rivers to Angola, arrived alive in the Americas as slaves. Of this …

… 26 An examination of these commodities is found in chapter eight of Ty M. Reese, Toiling
in the Empire: Labor in Three Anglo-Atlantic Ports, London, Philadelphia and Cape Coast …

For many, the African Diaspora remains synonymous with the infamous transatlantic slave
trade. In Reversing Sail, however, Michael Gomez shows that the integration of Africa and …