Royal African Company and the Arms Trade
| This document shows the amount of arms and ammunition at Cape Coast
Castle in 1771. It illustrates not only how heavily armed the forts
were, but also how arms and ammunition were shipped to the coast of
West Africa from Britain. Some of the stores listed here were probably
used as barter to acquire enslaved Africans. BT 6/1 (April 1771) |
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