Historian & screenwriter. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES on Radio 4.
The Royal African Company did some trading in elephant ivory. Its most significant trade, though, was in enslaved Africans - a trade it formally entered the year this coin was minted, under the governorship of King Charles II’s brother James, Duke of York (later King James II). https://t.co/WmLS70ybcS