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Charles II
King of Scotland (1649-1651) and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-1685). Charles granted a royal charter to the slave-trading Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa and made investments in the company. He was later founder and patron of the Royal African Company alongside his brother the Duke of York.
James II
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688. James II was governor of the Royal African Company and its largest shareholder.
Witherspoon, John
Scottish-American slave-owner, clergyman, theologian and Founding Father of the United States in the eighteenth century.