Buch, Englisch, 317 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 436 g
Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698¿1732
Buch, Englisch, 317 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 436 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
ISBN: 978-3-030-33841-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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 captains. Nonetheless, his astonishing rise and fall marked a turning point in the development of the brutal transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade under the Royal African Company Monopoly.- Chapter 3: Morice’s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders.- Chapter 4: Morice’s Beginnings:1704-1719.- Chapter 5: Morice at the Peak, 1720-1727.- Chapter 6: Morice’s Catastrophe, 1728-1731 and Beyond.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.- Chapter 8. Morice's Africa Voyages: An Annotated List.