Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company

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The Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company were a network of Dutch-controlled island and coastal territories in the Caribbean and northern South America that served as key hubs for trade, plantation agriculture, and the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dutch colonial possessions
colonial empire segment
early modern Caribbean colonies
administeredBy Heeren XIX (Directors of the Dutch West India Company)
capitalOfAdministration Willemstad (for Curaçao-based administration)
linked to: Willemstad
continent North America
South America
controlledBy Dutch Republic
Dutch West India Company
country Netherlands
economicRole cacao plantation zone
coffee plantation zone
entrepôt for enslaved Africans
regional trade hub
sugar plantation zone
tobacco plantation zone
endTime 1791
hasPart Aruba
Berbice
Bonaire
Curaçao
Demerara
Dutch Brazil (briefly, as a related Atlantic possession)
linked to: Dutch Brazil

Dutch Tobago (intermittently)
Dutch Tortuga (intermittently)
Dutch part of Saint Martin
Essequibo
Pomeroon
Saba
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
St. Croix (intermittently)
linked to: Saint Croix

Suriname
involvedIn transatlantic slave trade
triangular trade
mainActivity Atlantic trade
plantation agriculture
re-export trade
slave trading
sugar production
notableColony Curaçao as major slave-trading center
Sint Eustatius as major 18th-century free port
partOf Dutch colonial empire
politicalStatus chartered company colonies
region Caribbean
startTime 1621
successor Dutch state colonies after 1791
temporalExtent 17th century
18th century

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Heeren XIX appliesToJurisdiction Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company
Friesland chamber directors of the Dutch West India Company appliesToJurisdiction Atlantic colonies of the Dutch West India Company
linked to: Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company
Dutch Tortuga (intermittently) partOf Dutch Atlantic empire
linked to: Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company