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character, and that its arguments opposed the whole idea of heritage. The objectors stated that Rustat's involvement with the slave trade was marginal in his life and not unusual in the culture of his time. Evidence had been filed with the
University of Cambridge Advisory Group on Legacies of Enslavement which attempted to exonerate Rustat from any significant links to the 17th-century slave trade, as his RAC holdings constituted only 1.7 per cent of his total worth measured by his lifetime giving and his estate at death.
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and the Gambia
Adventurers. Rustat played a role in running the Royal African Company, being elected for three one-year terms as an Assistant (equivalent of a company director) in 1676, 1679 and 1680. The Members of the Court of Assistants can be considered equivalent to a modern-day board of
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with a donation of £1,000. The books purchased from the fund were to be bound in the same way with Rustat's arms stamped in gold on the cover, kept in one place in the library, and recorded in a vellum book.
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William Pettigrew has stated that this company “shipped more enslaved African women, men and children to the Americas than any other single institution during the entire period of the
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compelling case for removal that outweighed this harm. After the ruling the
Archbishop of Canterbury stood by his comments and stated "Memorials to slave-traders do not belong in places of worship."
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Tobias Rustat's Charity, registered charity no. 219784
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