South Sea Company

has description | a une description: British joint-stock company in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. First founded in 1711, the company received the Asiento de Negros (a monopoly contract from the Spanish Crown) in 1713 to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's colonies in the Americas. Estimates of the number of enslaved people transported by the South Sea Company run to over 34,000, with an estimated 4,000 dying during the course of the Middle Passage. In 1720, the Company's finances dramatically collapsed in what came to be known as the South Sea Bubble.
has type | est de type: Business
established | établi: 1711
had duration | avait une durée: 142 years
has former or current location | a pour localisation ancienne ou actuelle: London; United Kingdom
has current or former member | a pour membre actuel ou ancien: George I; George II

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - South Sea Company; Wikipedia - Asiento de Negros; Harvard Library - The South Sea Company and the Slave Trade; SlaveVoyages; David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson and Herbert S. Klein, eds, The Trans-Atlantic slave trade - a database on CD-Rom, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

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