By placing a consecutive line of company leaders and directors at the centre of focus - considering their perspective, motivations, experience and long-term aims, this thesis aims to add to our understanding of developments such as the slave trade and its format the relationship between merchants and the English state England's involvement with the Spanish Asiento, the relationship between the metropolitan mercantile community and the Atlantic planter society. This thesis presents and considers the development of England's Africa trade with its traders and companies through the 17th century, and argues for a reevaluation of important moments in the history of overseas trade when seen from the perspective of the Africa traders. Yet we know very little about the role of the early trade in the greater history of overseas trade. In 2018 it is 400 years since the first official English Africa company was launched.
Mastering the worst of trades : England’s early Africa companies and their traders, 1618-1672 Doctoral Thesis
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