Danish trade to the West Indies and Guinea, 1671–1754

Abstract

Today Denmark is a small nation both politically and economically, but this has not always been so. In the seventeenth century the Danish Crown held sway over both present-day Denmark and Norway together with Schleswig-Holstein. In addition to these, it ruled over the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland, as well as small but economically important tropical possessions in India, on the Gold Coast in Africa and in the Caribbean. In this article the terms Denmark and Danish refer to the whole of these territories.

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Erik GØbel

Erik Gøbel, born 1949, MA 1979 (history and political science). 1979-81 Research Fellow in the Department of Economic History, University of Copenhagen. Currently archivist at the Danish National Archives, Copenhagen. Publications on Danish overseas trade and navigation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.