Talk:Dutch West India Company

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The Dutch West India Company was a fun, long-lived Dutch company engaged in colonization of Africa and the New World from 1621 until its charter expired in 1791. Among many other settlements and colonies, in the 1620's the company built Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan, Fort Orange near Albany, N.Y., Fort Good Hope on the Connecticut river near Hartford, Connecticut, and Fort Nassau on the Delaware river. After losing New Netherlands to England, the company reorganized as an African slave trading company.

This text, added by 68.51.141.251, was put here instead of the current first three paragraphs. I removed it, since the original text should not be gone, butt I'm not sure what to do with this.

English, who conquered New Netherland in 1664, and in part due to the difficulty of attracting settlers under the company's initial policy of the Patroon system, which granted vast power over settlers to the men who brought them to the colony.

"Fun"? Monomoit (talk) 14:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

The article mentions the VOC, I assume this refers to the Dutch East India Company. There used to be a VOC flag among those in a display in the courtyard of the City Hall in Philadelphia. This probably was a mistake, since the article to the fort established by the GWC at a site on the other side of the Delaware River, in New Jersey. Was a distinctive flag ever used by the GWC? Monomoit (talk) 14:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Piracy
In the opening paragraph it reads: Another success for the WIC was the capture of a fleet carrying silver from the Spanish colonies to Europe by Piet Hein in 1628 - piracy was one of the objectives of the WIC. I don't know wether that last statement is true, but to call this capture of silver piracy seems strange, since The Netherlands were at war with Spain at the time. I removed the statement. 82.171.216.246 10:50, 16 June 2007 (UTC)


 * The correct term is of course "privateering".--MWAK 18:07, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Abbrevation
It's actually WIC, not GWC or GWIC, and since you're basing the abbrevation on the Dutch word, I'd suggest taking the Dutch abbrevation.--82.95.139.103 (talk) 14:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Translation from Dutch Wikipedia
I translated the Dutch article (West-Indische Compagnie) on request. Please leave a message if you encounter problems, inconsistencies or bad English. J.D. Hooijberg (talk) 21:31, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I did not translate the section on slave trade. Because it is a quite controversial history, I think this subject needs attention, or a seperate article about Dutch Slave Trade. The reason I've decided not to translated it, is because the original Dutch version lacks inline citations (although a lot reccomended reading is available), and I don't have expertise on this subject. I hope someone else will pick up this subject in the future, in one way or another.J.D. Hooijberg (talk) 23:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

The last sentences in the section on Decline are very confusing: "'The first West India Company conducted a long agony, and its end in 1674 was painless. The reason that the WIC could drag on for twenty years was due to its valuable West African possessions.',"

The first sentence makes no sense. What does "conducted a long agony" mean? Should it be "suffered a long agony", or maybe "caused a lot of agony"? And why was its end in 1674 painless? There is no information explaining the end of the first GWC.

178.85.92.198 (talk) 12:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Slavery
The GWC played a major role in Slavery, there should be a separate section dealing with this rather than mentioning it in passing in various other sections. For example the GWC built and owned the Elmina Castle in Ghana which was a major collection point for slaves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardKre (talk • contribs) 13:17, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Product : Slaves
They had a lot more than slaves for sale… 2603:8000:6900:D380:5C99:4230:2086:A17C (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2021 (UTC)