The Age of Plunder
How we traded Africa
1665-1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War
1672-1674 – Third Anglo-Dutch War
1672-1678 – Franco-Dutch War
1688-1697 – Nine Years’ War
1701-1714 – War of the Spanish Succession
1718-1720 – War of the Qudruple Alliance
1739-1742 – War of Jenkins’ Ear
1742-1748 – War of Austrian Succession
1756-1763 – Seven Years’ War
1775-1783 – American Revolutionary War
1793-1802 – French Revolutionary Wars
1803-1815 – Napoleonic Wars
Royal African Company Seal, National Archives, Kew.
c. William Pettigrew, Freedom’s Debt (Chapel Hill, 2013)