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The French West India Company (French: Compagnie française des Indes occidentales) was a French trading company founded on 28 May 1664, some three months before the foundation of the corresponding eastern company, by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and dissolved on 2 January 1674. The company received the French possessions of the Atlantic coasts of ...
West India Company may refer to: Danish West India Company , (1659–1776), Danish-Norwegian chartered company, also active in the slave trade Dutch West India Company aka GWC or WIC (1621–1792), Dutch chartered company, with jurisdiction over slave-trade in the Atlantic, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America
"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [13] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
The French West Indies or French Antilles (French: Antilles françaises, [ɑ̃tij fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Antillean Creole: Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean: The two overseas departments of: Guadeloupe, including the islands of Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, and La Désirade.
The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719 [1]) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies. In 1717, the Mississippi Company received a royal grant with exclusive trading ...
In 1604, King Henry IV of France authorized the establishment of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales (East India Company), granting the new firm a 15-year monopoly on French trade with the East Indies. [4] This company was a precursor to a firm of the same name founded Jean-Baptiste Colbert, though the first business was not a joint-stock ...
This authorized the capture or purchase of slaves from Africa, who were then transported as labor to Martinique and other parts of the French West Indies. [2] In 1650, the Company liquidated and sold Martinique to Jacques Dyel du Parquet, who became governor until his death in 1658. His widow then took control of the island for France.
An estimated 300 enslaved people escaped to Puerto Rico from the Danish West Indies through these means. [37] By 1778, it was estimated that 3,000 enslaved Africans had been brought to the Danish West Indies yearly. [38] In 1789, enslaved people constituted 88% of the islands' population.