The Royal African Company Trades for Commodities
Along the West African Coast
| The trading rights granted to the Royal African Company by Charles
II were limited to the territories shown; they ended at the Cape of
Good Hope, where the trading rights of the East India Company began.
This document provides a fascinating glimpse of European contact with
Africa at this date. Many of the place names are identified below
the transcript. CO 268/1, ff. 5-6 (1672) |
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