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Eddie was a Hard Worker
[He was apprenticed to the Mercers Company
for eight years and
by 1672 was shipping goods from London.
He built up a lucrative business, trading cloth, oil,
wine, sherry and fruit with Spain,
Portugal, Italy and Africa.
In 1680, Colston became a member
of the Royal African Company,
which had held the monopoly in England
on trading along the West coast of Africa in gold,
silver, ivory and slaves from 1662.
Colston rose rapidly on to the board
of the company and was Deputy Governor,
its most senior executive position,
from 1689 to 1690;
his association with the company ended in 1692.
This company had been set up
by King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York,
(later King James II, who was the Governor of the company),
together with City of London merchants,
and it had many notable investors,
including John Locke, English philosopher and physician,
widely regarded as one of the most influential
of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known
as the "Father of Liberalism"
(though he later changed his stance on the slave trade),
and the diarist Samuel Pepys.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Colston
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