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… West African ports to Barbados and Jamaica. 10 The same year we see an entry for Foster Cunliffe and Sons in the port books for the Port of Chester [Fig. 1]. The Sugarloaf arrived into the port from Liverpool on October 10 th 1753, … credit and trust and this too had a social life. The area around the Royal Exchange was also in the heart of a print and bookselling area, and surrounded by shops which sold numerous luxury goods. Beyond the Royal Exchange, coffeehouses also … of England. The companies oversaw a vast web of correspondence that connected merchants across the globe. The letter books for the Royal African Company, for instance, include domestic correspondence with merchants in London, Exeter and …
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