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This article explores references in the correspondence of the Royal African Company to the giving of enslaved African children – especially boys – to Company officials, investors, and others in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. It argues that this practice supported the fashion in art and society for the display of such children and allowed those invested in the slave trade to display their power within it through a distinctly gendered and age-based form of enslavement. These children’s passage to Europe is an understudied aspect of the Atlantic slave trade and one which is central to the story of the African and African-descended community in Britain. At the same time, the sending of enslaved Africans to the metropole shaped ideas about race, adulthood, and authority within the empire via the domination of non-white children at the hands of men connected to the slave trade.

‘[A]s Fast as Ships Return he Will Send Every one a Boy’: Enslaved Children as Gifts in the British Atlantic