Dutch West India Company

American  

noun

1. a Dutch merchant company chartered in 1621 to carry on trade with Africa, the West Indies, North and South America, and Australia.

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Example Sentences

Boaz could feign interest during his waking hours, but at one in the morning he did not need to hear about the treachery of the Dutch West India Company or how Anthony would never have done something so dishonorable as pay his debts with a dead goat, that if a perfectly healthy goat simply expired on the spot after taking one whiff of the unwashed scoundrel, then that was hardly his fault.

From Literature

About a half-century on, the Dutch West India Company was running big sugar operations in northeast Brazil, and naturally began thinking that a California “New Netherlands” sounded pretty good.

From Los Angeles Times

It features the letter from a Dutch West India Company administrator, dated Nov. 5, 1626, announcing the notorious “purchase” of Manhattan from Native Americans for 60 guilders — an amount translated in the 19th century to an infamous $24.

From New York Times

Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans-Atlantic slave trader, according to Karwan Fatah-Black, an expert in Dutch colonial history and an assistant professor at Leiden University.

From Seattle Times

The Dutch West India Company, meanwhile, was a significant force in the trade in enslaved people.

From New York Times