Danish West India Company

Danish West India Company
Company typeIncentive
IndustryChartered
Founded11 March 1671
Denmark
Defunct1 January 1776
FateDisintegration

The Danish West India Company (Danish: Vestindisk kompagni) or Danish West India–Guinea Company (Det Vestindisk-Guineisk kompagni) was a Dano-Norwegian chartered company that operated out of the colonies in the Danish West Indies. It is estimated that 120,000 enslaved Africans were transported on the company's ships.[1] Founded as the Danish Africa Company (Dansk afrikanske kompagni) in 1659, it was incorporated into the Danish West India Company in 1671.

  1. ^ "Slavery and Slave Trade". National Museum of Denmark. Archived from the original on 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2021-07-13.