.

[2] "The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in
the City Environment," _American Journal of Sociology_, V, 44, March,
1915, p. 589.

[3] Rivers, "Ethnological Analysis of Cultures," _Nature_, Vol. I, 87,
1911.

[4] W. J. McGee, _Piratical Acculturation_.

[5] There is or was a few years ago near Mobile a colony of Africans
who were brought to the United States as late as 1860. It is true,
also, that Major R. R. Moton, who has succeeded Booker T. Washington
as head of Tuskegee Institute, still preserves the story that was told
him by his grandmother of the way in which his great-grandfather was
brought from Africa in a slave ship.

[6] _Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured and
Negro Population of the West Indies_, by Mrs. Carmichael, Vol. I.
(London, Wittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 251.

"Native Africans do not at all like it to be supposed that they retain
the customs of their country and consider themselves wonderfully
civilized by being transplanted from Africa to the West Indies. Creole
Negroes invariably consider themselves superior people, and lord it
over the native Africans."

[7] The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was
founded in 1701 and the efforts to Christianize the Negro were carried
on with a great deal of zeal and with some success.

[8] JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, Vol. I, 1916, p. 70.

[9] _Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music_,
by Henry Edward Krehbiel. (New York and London, G. Schirmer), p. 37.
From a letter of Lafcadio Hearne.

[10] _Army Life in a Black Regiment_, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Boston, Fields, Osgood and Co., 1870.

[11] Krehbiel, _Afro-American Folksongs_, p. 16.

[12] Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, edited by The
Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, Vol. 37, New
York, 1910, No. 3--_Social and Mental Traits of the Negro_, by Howard
W. Odum, Ph.D., p. 91.

[13] Krehbiel, _Afro-American Folksongs_.

THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS OF ENGLAND TRADING INTO AFRICA,
1660-1672

INTRODUCTION

The English commercial companies trading to the west coast of Africa
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have practically
escaped the attention of historical students. Doubtless this neglect
is the result of the little importance which has until recently been
attached to African territory since the abolition of the slave trade.
Pre