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East India Company

British trading company (1600–1874)

  • British East India Company
  • EIC
  • John Company
  • English East India Company
  • United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies
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Beginning in the early 1620s, the East India Company began using slave labour and transporting enslaved people to its facilities in Southeast Asia and India as well as to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Angola. Although some of those enslaved by the company came from Indonesia and West Africa, the majority came from East Africa—from Mozambique or especially from Madagascar—and were primarily transported to the company’s holdings in India and Indonesia. Large-scale transportation of slaves by the company was prevalent from the 1730s to the early 1750s and ended in the 1770s. (English)
31 December 1600Gregorian
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1 June 1874Gregorian
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1707
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British East India Company
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British East India Company
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East India Company
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