Dutch West India Company
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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 • Mar. 1, 2025
The Dutch West India Company, meanwhile, was a significant force in the trade in enslaved people.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans-Atlantic slave trader, said Karwan Fatah-Black, an expert in Dutch colonial history and an assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2022
The Dutch West India Company operated ships estimated to have trafficked some 600,000 people into slavery for centuries, according to Dutch state data.
From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022
He became a kind of prosecutor and bill collector for the Dutch West India Company, which owned and operated the colony as a private fiefdom.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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