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Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752

Winner of the 2009 Jamestown Prize, a biennial, $3,000 award offered by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture for an exceptional book-length scholarly manuscript pertaining to the histories and cultures of North America from circa 1450 to 1820.

This submission brings together nine years of research work, which involved the collection of a considerable body of quantitative and qualitative primary and secondary material in several archives in the UK and the USA. This extensive research period was necessary in order to provide a comprehensive analysis over a long time period which engaged with the histories of slavery and the slave trade, constitutional change in England, the development of empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and the emergence of economics as a separate intellectual endeavour in this period.