Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie
The Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC) was a Dutch trading company established in 1720 in the Zeeland capital of Middelburg, Netherlands. After the monopoly of the Dutch West India Company for the Atlantic slave trade was abolished in 1730, the MCC became the principal Dutch slave trading company.[1] The company was eventually liquidated in 1889.
Thanks to the well-preserved notes and documents of the company, the MCC archives have proved very useful to scholars in understanding and reconstructing Dutch 18th-century slave trade.[2] The archive was listed in 2011 in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.[3]
See also
Citations
- ↑ Postma 1990, pp. 123-124.
- ↑ Postma 1990, p. 104.
- ↑ "Netherlands - Memory of the World Register". UNESCO. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
References
- Postma, Johannes M. (1990). The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36585-6.