Dutch West India Company

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The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf chartered company
colonial company
trading company
abbreviation WIC
captured Dutch Brazil
surface form: Bahia (briefly)

Elmina Castle
Luanda
Dutch Brazil
surface form: Pernambuco

Dutch Brazil
surface form: Portuguese Brazil (parts)
charterRenewed 1674
country Dutch Republic
dissolved 1792
economicFocus fur trade in North America
sugar plantations
tobacco trade
governingBody Heeren XIX
grantedBy States General of the Netherlands
surface form: States-General of the Netherlands
hasMonopolyOn Dutch Atlantic trade
headquartersLocation Amsterdam
inception 1621
involvedIn Atlantic slave trade
Dutch–Portuguese War
Eighty Years' War
languageOfOperation Dutch
legalForm joint-stock company
mainActivity colonial administration
privateering
slave trade
trade in sugar
mainChamber Amsterdam Chamber
nativeName Dutch West India Company self-linksurface differs
surface form: Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie
notableColony Aruba
Bonaire
Curaçao
Dutch Brazil
New Netherland
Saba
Sint Maarten
surface form: Saint Martin (Dutch part)

Leeward Islands
surface form: Sint Eustatius

Suriname
notableCommander Piet Hein
notableEvent capture of the Spanish treasure fleet of 1628
notableGovernor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
operatedIn Atlantic Ocean
Brazil
Caribbean
North America
West Africa
organizedAs chambers (Kamers)
shareholdersIncluded Amsterdam merchants
Zeeland merchants
successor Dutch Republic
surface form: Dutch state (colonial administration)

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Peter Minuit employer Dutch West India Company
Pomeroon establishedBy Dutch West India Company
Dutch Tobago (intermittently) administeredBy Dutch West India Company
subject surface form: Dutch Tobago
Dutch Tobago (intermittently) charteredCompany Dutch West India Company
subject surface form: Dutch Tobago
Dutch Tortuga (intermittently) colonialPower Dutch West India Company
Dutch Tortuga (intermittently) partOf Dutch West India Company
this entity surface form: Dutch West India Company Atlantic network
Prussian Gold Coast soldTo Dutch West India Company
Kiliaen van Rensselaer employer Dutch West India Company
Wouter van Twiller, Director of New Netherland employer Dutch West India Company
subject surface form: Wouter van Twiller
Wouter van Twiller, Director of New Netherland appointedBy Dutch West India Company
subject surface form: Wouter van Twiller
Stuyvesant family associatedWith Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam period hasColonialPower Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam period governingCompany Dutch West India Company
Thienhoven operator Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam foundedBy Dutch West India Company
Rensselaerswyck charterGrantedBy Dutch West India Company
Rensselaerswyck governingBody Dutch West India Company