Dutch Slave Trade

Dutch slave trade In the 17th and 18th centuries, mercantilism was a new economic policy for the development of slave trade in Europe. In the Netherlands, many historical events have caused a desire for international trade control. They are serious businessmen and deeply involved in beneficial slavery. In the Netherlands, wise and self-discriminating merchants spared their efforts to show their superiority in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Spain in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean competition countries.

Historically, enslaving of the majority of American Africans began in New York and was part of the Dutch slave trade. The Netherlands West India Company put in 11 African slaves in New Amsterdam in 1626. The first slave auction was held in New Holland in 1655. The last batch of slaves was released on July 4, 1827, but many black New Yorkers continued to be a deterrent apprentice. For the mother's master. The UK expanded the use of slavery, and in 1703 over 42% of the family in New York City became slavery. This is the second highest rate in any city in the colony, after Charleston, South Carolina. Other people work in this city as craftsmen, shipping and various industries. Slaves were also used for agricultural production of Long Island, Hudson Valley, Mohawk Valley.

Dutch participation in Atlantic slave trade covers from the 17th century to the 19th century. Originally the Dutch carried slaves to northern Brazil, where they controlled the trade of Spanish colonies in the late 17th century. Today Surinam and Guyana became important markets in the 18th century. Between 1612 and 1872, the Dutch worked in about 10 fortresses of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), from which the slaves were brought to the Atlantic Ocean. Trade fell from 1780 to 1815. The proportion of the Netherlands in the Atlantic slave trade is estimated at 5 to 7%, which is about 550,000 to 600,000 Africans.

Given that commercial activities on African coastal trails go back to the mid-1590s, the Netherlands waited decades aggressively before participating in slave trade. Initially, Dutch trade in Africa was concentrated on gold, but ivory was not that much, but serious in the first official settlements on the coast of Africa in Nassau Fort (1612) of Gold Coast Muri There was no problem. Slavery. . Perhaps this hesitation is caused by an early moral reservation of human traffic, or more reasonably, the fact that the Dutch are still lacking adequate American colonies with strong demand for slave labor .