British South Sea Company

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The British South Sea Company was an early 18th-century English trading and finance corporation notorious for its role in the South Sea Bubble and its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

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instanceOf finance company
joint-stock company
trading company
acquiredAsientoFrom Spain
alsoKnownAs South Sea Company
The Governor and Company of the Merchants of Great Britain Trading to the South Seas and other Parts of America and for Encouraging the Fishery
asientoGrantedByTreaty Treaty of Utrecht
charterGrantedBy Queen Anne
consequenceOfBubble financial ruin for many investors
increased role of the Bank of England
reforms in British financial regulation
country Kingdom of Great Britain
dissolvedInYear 1853
engagedIn speculative share issues
foundedInYear 1711
grantedBy Parliament of Great Britain
headquartersLocation London
linked to: London, England
heldMonopolyOn British trade in the South Seas
asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)
linked to: Asiento de Negros
historicalPeriod Georgian era
early 18th century
industry finance
international trade
involvedIn transatlantic slave trade
issued shares
keyFigure George I of Great Britain
James Craggs the Younger
John Aislabie
John Blunt
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
legacy case study in financial regulation history
symbol of speculative financial bubbles
locatedOnStreet Threadneedle Street
mainOffice South Sea House
notableFor South Sea Bubble
collapse of share price in 1720
speculative financial mania in 1720
operatedDuringReignOf George I of Great Britain
George II of Great Britain
George III of the United Kingdom
Queen Anne
primaryPurpose management and conversion of British national debt
trade in South America and the Pacific (South Seas)
regulatedBy British government
roleInBritishEconomy conversion of government debt into company shares
management of portions of the national debt
subjectOfInvestigation Parliamentary inquiry after 1720 crash
tradedIn government annuities
yearOfSouthSeaBubble 1720

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asiento de negros contract grantedTo British South Sea Company
South Sea Bubble mainCompanyInvolved South Sea Company
linked to: British South Sea Company
South Sea Bubble relatedCompany South Sea Company
linked to: British South Sea Company
Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) relatedTo British South Sea Company
Asiento granted to Britain mainBeneficiary South Sea Company
linked to: British South Sea Company
Asiento granted to Britain implementedBy South Sea Company
linked to: British South Sea Company
British South Sea Company alsoKnownAs South Sea Company
linked to: British South Sea Company
British South Sea Company alsoKnownAs The Governor and Company of the Merchants of Great Britain Trading to the South Seas and other Parts of America and for Encouraging the Fishery
linked to: British South Sea Company
Bubble Act 1720 relatedTo South Sea Company
linked to: British South Sea Company