Business Of Slaving

Question 1

Dash/Comey

Answer 1

The European merchants are demanded to pay custom fees or “comey” to the chief commercial agents before conducting actual trade.

Question 2

Caboceer/White Man’s Chief

Answer 2

Acting as a middleman between the chief and European (or American) trader, the caboceer would procure slaves and deliver them to coastal forts or slave-factories in preparation for the actual trading process.

Question 3

Forts/Castles

Answer 3

Once the captured Africans arrived at the Atlantic, they were taken to one of the many slave forts that could be found along the coastline, where they would wait to be transported by ship to the Americas.

Question 4

Agents/factors

Answer 4

European agents in charge of slave collecting centres.

Question 5

Royal Africa Company

Answer 5

Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698.

The Royal African Company traded mainly for gold and slaves