Swedish Africa Company
Swedish trading company, founded in 1649 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Swedish Africa Company (Swedish: Svenska Afrikanska Kompaniet) was a Swedish trading company, founded in 1649 on the initiative of the Walloon-Dutch merchant Louis De Geer and his son Laurens, for whom Sweden had become a second home. The primary interest of the company was the trade on the Swedish Gold Coast, notably the trade of human beings to be sold into slavery in the Americas.[1]
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Founded | 1647 (1647) |
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Founder | Louis De Geer |
Defunct | 1663 (1663) |
Headquarters | Hamburg, Stade, Göteborg |
Key people | Laurens De Geer, Hendrik Carloff, |
Products | tobacco, sugar, gold and African slaves |
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