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The content you provided discusses a 1750 act of the British Parliament that formally established the enslavement and trafficking of African people as official state policy. The act ended the Royal African Company’s monopoly and institutionalized free trade in the transatlantic slave trade, explicitly acknowledging the trade as “very advantageous to Great Britain” and necessary for supplying enslaved Africans to the colonies.
Key points from the text include:
– The 1750 legislation marked a shift from a monopolistic company (the RAC) to open, free trade in enslaved Africans.
– The official wording of the act openly described the enslavement and trafficking of African people as state policy.
– The text of the act explicitly states that the African trade was essential for the supply of enslaved people to British plantations and colonies.
– The act emphasized that this trade should be “free and open to all his majesty’s subjects,” thus legalizing and promoting widespread participation in the slave trade.
– The content illustrates the institutional and legal racism underpinning British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
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