Which of the following statements correctly identifies the Royal African Company?
A. This English company held a monopoly on all English trade with sub-Saharan Africa during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
B. This West African company consisted of representatives from all West African kingdoms and coordinated slave-catching raids into the African interior.
C. This West African company established the rules and regulations under which Europeans were allowed to trade with states along the Guinea coast.
D. This English company acted as the coordinator and licensing agent for all independent trading companies seeking to transport slaves to the English colonies.
Answer: A
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