2-321-778 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Slavery accounts, 1698-1701 (1965). Accounts of the number of negroes delivered to the islands of Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua for the years 1698-1701. In 1698 the monopoly in the African trade was abolished. In 1708 the Royal African Company tried, without success, to regain it. The government took a ten per cent levy from the trade. Found in the Collection of the British Museum. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.