{"product_id":"freedoms-debt-the-royal-african-company-and-the-politics-of-the-atlantic-slave-trade-16721752-9781469629858","title":"Freedoms Debt  The Royal African Company and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePettigrew's work is a much needed examination of the political and economic underpinnings of the early years of the British slave trade.- \u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Cogently argued.\"\"- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"[A] carefully researched book.\"\"- \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Accessible and very interesting. . . . An admirable account of how the [Royal African Company] and its rival British slave-trading enterprises shaped, and were shaped by, the politics of the wider society they inhabited.\"\"- \u003ci\u003eEnterprise \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A deeply researched, persuasive study on the political disputes between the RAC and what the author calls the independent slave traders who opposed the RAC's monopoly and were victorious by 1712 in deregulating Britain's slave trade.\"\"- H-Net;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Pettigrew's fascinating and well-researched book is an essential contribution to the history of the Anglo-American slave trade.\"\"- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Early American History\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Well researched and coherently organized...convincing, compelling, and important... \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Debt\u003c\/i\u003e does for English history something like what Edmund S. Morgan did for American history in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\"- \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"[\u003ci\u003eFreedom's Debt\u003c\/i\u003e] will be a standard source for specialists for many years to come.\"\"- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e For the first time, the origins of the British slave trade receive the searching inquiry they long have deserved. With \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, Pettigrew tells a new story about the political foundations of the traffic as well as the ideological seeds of its dissolution.\"\"- Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University","brand":"MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50041315721559,"sku":"9781469629858","price":26.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781469629858.jpg?v=1740182166","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/freedoms-debt-the-royal-african-company-and-the-politics-of-the-atlantic-slave-trade-16721752-9781469629858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}