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...

Elijah Craig

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Elijah Craig #TRIVIA   Elijah Craig (1738–1808)  was a fierce Baptist preacher, educator, and capitalist entrepreneur in Virginia. Elijah Craig (1738–1808) moved to state of Kentucky in the 1780th. Two of his brothers were Baptist preachers, and Craig was jailed at...

Baptists and Distilling

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Baptists and Distilling #TRIVIA   The Baptist Preacher that invented Bourbon Whiskey In early distilling history, many Baptists used spirits; some even brewed beer and distilled whiskey.  One famous example of a deeply religious distiller is Elijah Craig, a Baptist...