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Through the histories of English trading companies - the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company - this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the emergence of English freedom.

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This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters from emerging and established business historians assess the full range of social obligations that corporations held historically. By adopting an innovative methodological approach that is long-term and comparative, this book offers a challenge to the literature on corporate history and will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of finance and business history.

Finance. --- Social responsibility of business. --- Finance--History. --- Financial History. --- Corporate Social Responsibility. --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Industries --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Funding --- Funds --- Social responsibility --- Business. --- Trade --- Economics --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Finance --- Social responsibility of busines. --- History. --- Finance—History. --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Social aspects

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"In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history. Unlike previous histories of the RAC, Pettigrew's study pursues the Company's story beyond the trade's complete deregulation in 1712 to its demise in 1752. Opening the trade led to its escalation, which provided a reliable supply of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, thus playing a critical part in entrenching African slavery as the colonies' preferred solution to the American problem of labor supply"--

Slave trade --- Slavery --- Political aspects --- History --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Royal African Company. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- African Company --- Africa Company --- Royal African Company of England --- Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. --- HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. --- Slave-trade --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Royal African Company --- Enslaved persons