Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1670
Colonial opposition to monopoly practices
French Caribbean settlers criticized the company for high resale prices, inadequate supplies, and insufficient deliveries of enslaved laborers. Smuggling with Dutch merchants undermined the company’s authority and exposed the conflict between metropolitan monopoly policy and colonial economic interests.
1664
Colonial monopoly and participation in enslavement
The company’s charter gave it extensive exclusive trading rights, and it held a monopoly over the Senegal slave trade. Its operations were therefore connected to the coercive Atlantic slave-trade system and to the plantation economies of the French Caribbean.