Organisation
South Sea Company
- Slug
- south-sea-company-174
- Alternative names
- The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America and for the encouragement of the Fishery
- Organisation type
- Corporation
- Founding date
- 1711-01-01
- Dissolution date
- 1853-01-01
- Location
- london-1
- Languages
- Unknown
A British joint-stock company founded in January 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento de Negros) to supply African slaves to the islands in the “South Seas” and South America.