![]() ![]() It was not just Charles II who was instrumental in the RAC. Over that time around 150,000 Africans were enslaved by the RAC, mostly sold in the colonised Caribbean.Īs historian William Pettigrew writes, the RAC “shipped more enslaved African women, men, and children to the Americas than any other single institution during the entire period of the transatlantic slave trade.” The royal monopoly only came to an end because English traders demanded their right to their share of the trade, after which the company continued until 1731. At its peak in 1683, the RAC had 74% of the transatlantic slave trade. The Royal African Company (RAC) was set up by Charles II in 1672 with a complete monopoly of the slave trade which lasted until 1698. If we tell a story at all about Britain’s legacy of slavery, it is of the (white) heroes of abolition. Why I Put Branding Irons into Royal Hands
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