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Immediately after the Peace of Nijmegen, the new West India Company enjoyed an initial period of relative prosperity based upon the slave trade. With the turn of the century, however, the Company’s financial prospects began to look less bright, especially after 1715 when, with the Peace of Utrecht, England acquired the right of asiento.
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Goslinga, C.C. (1979). The End of the Seventeenth Century. In: A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9289-4_9
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