The African holocaust required more resources than most nations had

slave trade could not function successfully, they argued, unless they had direct access to cowry shells and Indian textiles. The government denied the merchants' request and instead formed the Company of the Indies, which was given a monopoly over both the Asia trade and the slave trade. The integration of France's Asia trade with the slave trade was now complete. Ships returning from Asia unloaded their textiles and cowry shells at the company port of Lorient on the Brittany Coast of ...
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