Royal African Company

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Textual Features	Catherine Phillips	Though she stresses her own patriotic loyalty (Britannia's Monarch dear, I own / My Sov'reign under God) Phillips, Catherine. The Happy King. Privately printed, 1794. 88 she is as eager to direct the king as such long-past predecessors in the genre...

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18 December 1660

The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African Company ) was founded under the personal patronage of Charles II and James II ; this represented Britain's active engagement with the slave trade.

Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.

146, 148, 150

Behn, Aphra. “Editorial Materials”. Oroonoko, edited by Joanna Lipking, W. W. Norton, 1997, p. Various pages.

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3 May 1730

Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported scarce in coastal districts near Aunamabo in Africa, owing to a bloody war with their inland neighbours.

The Grub-Street Journal. James Roberts.

17 September 1730

Dabydeen, David. Hogarth’s Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art. University of Georgia Press, 1987.

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