55. The Fall of the Royal African Company

Empire: World History

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Royal African Company has a monopoly on the trading of slaves, given directly by the Stuarts. But the Glorious Revolution sweeps in and they are deposed. How will The Company fare? And, more importantly, how will this affect the transatlantic slave trade? Listen to William and Anita to find out. Sign up to The Knowledge here: www.theknowledge.com/empire/ LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/empirepod. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William Durum. And me, Empire with me, Anita Arnan.
0:33.0	And me, William Durumpel.
0:35.0	Why are you leaning in?
0:36.4	How many times, Darth Vader?
0:38.6	I just had a very nice strong cup of coffee.
0:42.3	I was evening ready to go on this. I just had a very nice strong cup of coffee.
0:43.0	Wizzing and ready to go on this fascinating but incredibly grim subject that we've got to talk about.
0:49.0	It is incredibly grim.
0:50.0	We left you at the end of the last episode with the creation the birth story of the
0:56.7	Royal African Company and William that the dates we were sort of talking about the
1:00.6	foundation 1672 of what was the final iteration of the
1:06.0	Royal Africa company. Just give us an idea of what they were doing and what
1:11.2	period of time because I don't think we have dates and numbers really attached to this just yet.
1:15.5	So they are founded initially to look for gold and this idea that there's you know King Solomon's
1:22.4	mines that that sort of idea that in the center of Africa you've got this amazing source of gold.
1:29.0	But that proves to be an illusion.
1:32.0	And they realize that within about three years they realize that they're not going to find the goal that they were after or the quantity of gold that.
1:38.0	Although as we discussed at the end of the last program they do get some gold and they use it to mint a new coin for Charles
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