Danish West India Company

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The Danish West India Company was a chartered trading company of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway that administered and profited from colonial possessions in the Caribbean, particularly in what became the Danish West Indies.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf chartered trading company
colonial company
administered Danish West Indies
Saint Croix
Saint John
Saint Thomas
associatedWith Copenhagen merchants
Danish West Indies
Kingdom of Denmark–Norway NERFINISHED
charteredBy Danish crown
Kingdom of Denmark–Norway NERFINISHED
colonialPowerOf Danish West Indies
country Denmark–Norway NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Denmark–Norway NERFINISHED
engagedIn triangular trade
governedBy company-appointed governors
hasColony Saint Croix
Saint John
Saint Thomas
hasHistoricalRole European colonization of the Caribbean
sugar plantation economy in the Caribbean
transatlantic slave trade
headquartersLocation Copenhagen
industry colonial administration
slave trade
trade
locatedInTimePeriod age of colonialism
age of sail
early modern period
mainActivity Atlantic slave trade
plantation management
sugar trade
operatedIn Caribbean
Danish West Indies
operatedUnder Danish crown monopoly
partOf Danish colonial empire
profitFrom colonial trade
plantation slavery
sugar plantations
region Caribbean Sea
subjectTo Danish royal charter
territoryBecame United States Virgin Islands
transported enslaved Africans
typeOfEnterprise joint-stock company
usedCurrency Danish rigsdaler
usedLanguage Danish

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Fort Christian
builtBy
Danish colonial empire ("Danish West India–Guinea Company")
hasPart

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