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Index Abenaker, Elias, 74, 227 Aberdeen, 120, 121n, 242 Abolitionism: and Whig history, 3; and British national pride, 3; and politics, 3; and intention , 7; and Royal African Company, 7, 208–209; as an act of regulation, 177; and slave baptism, 190; and hospitality, 193; and the golden rule, 196; and John Atkins, 198; and Malachy Postlethwayt, 207; and the separate traders, 211–212; bicentennial of, 217; and British American values, 218. See also Antislavery; Pro-slavery arguments Act for Making Effectual Such Agreement as Shall Be Made between the Royal African Company of England and Their Creditors (Creditors’ Act), 153 Act of Union (with Scotland), 100, 101n, 116, 119 Act to Settle the Trade to Africa (1698 act), 13; expiration of, 17n, 44, 139, 140n, 148, 153, 155–156, 164, 176; as a Royal African Company victory, 37; terms of, 37; duties imposed by, 37; interlopers’ contribution to, 38; as cause for craze in slave trading, 38; and Royal African Company’s market share of the slave trade, 38; and prices of slaves, 38; and the separate traders, 118; and prohibition on office holding in the colonies, 128–129, 134. See also Deregulation of the slave trade Admiralty, 2, 91, 215; and the seizure of interlopers in the slave trade, 1–2; and the Atlantic economy, 24; and Royal African Company, 26; statutory underpinnings of, 31. See also Civil law; Common law; Viceadmiralty courts Africa House, 46, 67, 123, 137, 194 African interior: and trade, 154, 163–166, 171, 177, 187, 192–194, 197, 203, 206–207, 216. See also Antislavery; Chandos, James Brydges, duke of; Hospitality; Postlethwayt , Malachy African plantations, 22, 134, 162–163, 166 Africans: culture and values of, 85, 111, 179, 186–187, 191, 198, 203, 205. See also Barbarity Africa trade: defined, 8n Africa trade debates, 6, 7, 36, 46, 49, 84, 108; and British imperial policy, 7–8; effects of, on slave trade, 11–16, 192; and American slavery, 14–15, 37, 179; beginning of, 33; and petitions, 33; and signatories on petitions, 33; and pamphlets, 33, 43; locations involved in, 33, 119; second stage of, 39; and Glorious Revolution, 89; and consent for the slave trade, 90, 132, 141, 175; and Daniel Defoe, 115; and colonial input, 133; and antislavery, 185, 203, 208; and the reconceptualization of African barbarity, 186–187, 190. See also Board of Trade; Deregulation of the slave trade; House of Commons; House of Lords; Lobbies; Politics; Slaves Andrews, Sir John, 76 Andros, Sir Edmund, 25, 56 Anglican Church, 31, 138, 182, 190. See also Christianity Anglo-Dutch War, second, 23 Angola, 169, 184, 171 Anne (queen of England), 39, 76, 138, 141, 144, 159, 162 Antigua, 68, 133n, 135, 137 Antislavery, 3–4; and Royal African Company, 150, 179–180, 192, 201, 203, 207–208, 214; and vice, 179, 182; and overconsumption, 183; and luxury, 183–184, 188; and liberty, 191, 211–212; and the separate traders, 212. See also Abolitionism; Pro-slavery arguments 250 . INDEX Ashley, Solomon, 201n, 237 Asiento, 154, 160, 161 Atkins, John, 17–18, 18n, 171n; and depiction of the separate traders, 196; and Royal African Company, 196; and deregulation, 197; and pro-slavery, 198, 203; and trade with Africa, 203 Atkins, Sir Jonathan, 26, 88n Atkins, Robert, 67, 73n, 233 Atlantic economy, 5–6, 24–25, 34, 40, 58, 60, 71, 82, 98, 175; integration of, by the separate traders, 59–60, 61n, 64, 71 Baker, John, 55n, 78, 227, 235 Bank of England, 79, 138–139, 158–159 Baptism: of slaves, 189–190, 208 Barbados, 25–26, 30, 36, 41, 50–53, 55, 55n, 68, 68n, 69, 72, 74n, 78, 120–121, 121n, 125–127, 129, 130, 133n, 134, 136, 137, 190n, 191, 204, 242 Barbarity: of Royal African Company, 1; of the Africans, 85, 97, 113, 140, 185–186, 196, 203–204, 215; of the separate traders, 187–188, 192, 205, 209; of pro-slavery arguments , 198–199. See also Atkins, John; Selfinterest Barnardiston, Sir Samuel, 53n Barons, George, 65, 227 Barwick, Samuel, 55n, 227, 235 Bate, Raynes, 18n, 125, 129, 134, 136n, 154n Bateman, Sir James, 76 Bathurst, Sir Benjamin, 45, 237 Bawden, John, 34, 50–51, 67 Beake v.Tyrell, 32n Beckford, Julius, 176 Beckford, Peter, 134, 135n, 227, 235 Beehive (analogy), 94, 104; and Richard Harris , 94–95 Beeston, William, 128–129 Behn, Aphra, 83, 183–184, 191 Bennet, Henry, earl of Arlington, 25 Benson, Sir William, 75, 227 Berdoe, James, 75, 227 Berkshire, 57, 121n, 240 Bethlehem Hospital...

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