The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up in 1660 by the royal Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa… It was led by the Duke of York, who was the brother of Charles II and later took the throne as James II… It shipped more African slaves to the Americas than any other company in the history of the Atlantic slave trade… It was established after Charles II gained the English throne in the Restoration of 1660…
Contrary to conventional thought, slavery was NOT created by so called whites and was NOT only endured by so called Blacks... The irony is that it is so called Blacks who appear to have created the institution of slavery... As the creators of civilization, and the builders of the worlds first cities, so called Blacks logically were the first to have a need for slaves, as a source of free labor... Slavery in ancient cultures was known to occur in civilizations as old as Sumer, and it was found in every civilization, including Ancient Egypt, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient Greece, Rome and parts of its empire...