Caroline Porsiel, Author at AMBRU Campaign

Lucy Downing

Lucy Downing #TRIVIA Lucie Winthrop Downings Early North American Rum Entrepreneurs. Read more about the “mother of Harvard” and about her husband being the first known American Rum distiller, and how her sons brought the knowledge of molasses distilling from...

Triangular Trade

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Triangular Trade #TRIVIA Portuguese Transatlantic Slave Trade How slavery conquered the Americas The transatlantic slave trade, which started with the Portuguese in the 16th, was the largest long-distance forced movement of people in history. Read why it is also...

The Dutch West India Company

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The Dutch West India Company #TRIVIA Dutch West India Company (WIC/GWIC) One of the first international trade & investment companies. The Dutch West India Company (WIC/GWIC) was a Dutch trading company organized on the model of the Dutch East India Company...

Piet Pieterszoon Heyn

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Piet Pieterszoon Heyn #TRIVIA Piet Pieterszoon Heyn The first pirate of the Caribbean. Piet Pieterszoon Heyn (1577-1629) was an admiral of the northern Dutch WIC, which was founded to weaken the Spanish militarily and economically during the Eighty Years’ War. Piet...

Dutch Brazil (New Holland)

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Dutch Brazil (New Holland) #TRIVIA The “Groot Desseyn” by the Dutch A 17th century economic strategy to break the sugar monopoly of the Portuguese At the time the Dutch West India Company (WIC/GWIC) was founded in 1621, the so called Twelve Years’ Truce...