The Royal African Company chartered

England grants a monopoly on the West African trade to the Royal African Company, which ships tens of thousands of enslaved people to its American colonies.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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The Royal African Company

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England's chartered slaving monopoly that supplied the colonies.

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The RAC industrialized the English slave trade to the colonies.

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade

The RAC industrialized the English slave trade to the colonies.