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Plenty of discussion of this outfit in Gerald Horne's book. Wiki states that "Between 1672 and 1689, the Company transported 90,000 to 100,000 slaves. Its profits made a major contribution to the increase in the financial power of those who controlled the City of London." Among its stock-holders was John Locke, who was the secretary to the board of governors of South Carolina, a sub-colony of Barbados in effect, that defended slavery as a fundamental property right. I always got a laugh out of Ellen Meiksins Wood referring to Locke as the preeminent philosopher of capitalism when he was up to his neck in what she called "precapitalism".
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