Which of the Following Statements Correctly Identifies the Royal African

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements correctly identifies the Royal African Company?

• A) This English company held a monopoly on all English trade with sub-Saharan Africa during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
• B) This West African company consisted of representatives from all West African kingdoms and coordinated slave-catching raids into the African interior.
• C) This West African company established the rules and regulations under which Europeans were allowed to trade with states along the Guinea coast.
• D) This English company acted as the coordinator and licensing agent for all independent trading companies seeking to transport slaves to the English colonies.

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