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Matthew David Mitchell ()
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Matthew David Mitchell: Sewanee: The University of the South

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Prince of Slavers, 2020, pp 217-226 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Mitchell here sets the career of Humphry Morice in the larger arc of the British transatlantic slave trade’s subsequent development. Slave traders from Bristol, he demonstrates, did indeed enjoy shorter overall voyage times—primarily meaning shorter loading times in African ports—than did those from London throughout the 1730s. Their dominance then gave way to that of slave traders from Liverpool, who continued to build on Morice’s insights about the importance of African market information—and of innovating to lower the costs of getting that information—in order to assemble their outbound cargoes and ensure short stays on the coast. Morice therefore set the initial pattern for large-scale individual investment in the trade during the decades after the revocation of the Royal African Company monopoly.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33839-8_7

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