Merchants [ Commerce ]
… Exchange’, Met Museum, 29.102.128, 1647. Image Index of letters from Africa House in London to Royal African Company merchants in James Fort, Gambia, 1720-1737’, The National Archives, Kew, London, T 70/55. Abstract Beyond the shared activity of trading, merchants belonged to a broad occupational category, which was also reflected in wide-ranging educational backgrounds. The merchant straddled traditional social classes and the rise of the merchant was part of the expansion of the ‘middling …
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