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better export prices. Some were even known to be direct threats to the security of the company’s employees and property and were willing at times to risk seizing or even destroying ships and their cargoes. For all of these reasons it made sense to RAC employees on the Upper Guinea Coast to supplement the fort trade with ship trading. Agents at each island station organized visits to their out-factories and also periodically sent their small craft on coasting voyages or up rivers to known bulking centers on their banks where goods could be had at prices that were lower than on the coast. Carrying overseas goods out to these inland points and then bringing export goods back to the fort required having a variety of small craft on hand and in good repair as well as having sufficiently loyal and armed manpower to ward off thieves and interlopers and, in the case of the transport of captives, to prevent escapes or insurrections.
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