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1: Prince Andrew's official title is .... the Duke of York. funny that eh?!
2: >The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up in 1660 by the royal Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa. It was led by the Duke of York, who was the brother of Charles II and later took the throne as James II. It shipped more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade.[1]
Its original purpose was to exploit the gold fields up the Gambia River, which were identified by Prince Rupert during the Interregnum. It was established after Charles II gained the English throne in the Restoration of 1660.[2] It soon developed and led a brutal and sustained slave trade.[1] It extracted other commodities, mainly from the Gold Coast. After becoming insolvent in 1708, it survived until 1752 in a state of much reduced activity when its assets were transferred to the new African Company of Merchants, which lasted until 1821. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_African_Company
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[–] bunnysupreme 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago (edited ago)
1: Prince Andrew's official title is .... the Duke of York. funny that eh?!
2: >The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up in 1660 by the royal Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa. It was led by the Duke of York, who was the brother of Charles II and later took the throne as James II. It shipped more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade.[1]