Sujet

At a General Court of the Adventurers of the Royal African Company of England, 1744-02-28. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

At a General Court of the Adventurers of the Royal African Company of England, 1744-02-28. The Royal African Company was a mercantile company established in order to exploit the West African gold fields. It also engaged with the slave trade. Establishments were made with forts and settlements on the West African coast to serve as staging and trading stations.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23A18_035

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

97,4Mo (5,2Mo) / 39,5cm x 61,7cm / 4667 x 7291 (300dpi)

Mots clés

library government politics industry trade British color competition industrial mining political text century Britain document international relations concept exploitation B&W slavery lettering public library MONOCHROME gold mining Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL heritage slave trade Unknown Royal African Company cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art documents 19th-century Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture