The Crispe Family and the African Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Porter (0000-0002-6446-6227, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-77 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700008355 |
| OpenAlex | W2109504558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 4 |
Nicholas Crispe (1598–1666) played a very important part in the developing of English trading contacts with West Africa in the seventeenth century. He obtained a commanding position within the African company in 1628 and did much to secure the company's reconstitution on a sounder basis in 1631. From 1631 until 1644 Crispe was the driving force behind the trade and, in particular, directed and largely financed the successful English entry into the gold trade of the Gold Coast, where permanent English factories with resident traders were established for the first time and a fort was started at Kormantin. After the Restoration he tried to regain his former position, but was unsuccessful, though his membership of the Company of Adventurers did give him some influence on the trade. Other members of the family were also involved in the African trade, sometimes in a significant way, over the same period
Adventure · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Business · Economic history · Fur trade · Gold coast · Period (music · Position (finance · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Finance · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
Materializing the Middle Passage
‘Like Devils out of Hell’
To procure Negroes’
A primeira partilha da África
The James Phipps papers in the Public Records Office
West Africa in the British Atlantic
Evil Disposed Netherlanders”
Attitudes to Africans in English Primary Sources on Guinea up to 1650
The Government of Fante in the Seventeenth Century
A note on the relative importance of slaves and gold in West African exports
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2023 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |