The East India Company has arranged contracts…
July 1713 CE
The East India Company has arranged contracts with the Royal African Company by July to supply the necessary African slaves to Jamaica.
Ten pounds is paid for a slave aged over sixteen, eight pounds for one over ten.
Two thirds are to be male, and ninety percent adult.
The company transships twelve hundred and thirty slaves from Jamaica to America in the first year, plus any which might have been added (against standing instructions) by the ship's captains on their own behalf.
On arrival of the first cargoes, the local authorities refuse to accept the Asiento, which has still not been officially confirmed there by the Spanish authorities.
The slaves will eventually be sold at a loss in the West Indies.
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Anglicans (Episcopal Church of England)
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Royal African Company
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New York, Province of (English Colony)
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Bank of England (independent)
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Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of
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Jamaica (British Colony)
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Britain, Kingdom of Great
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East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies)
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South Sea Company, the
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