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The Cacheu and Cape Verde Company (Portuguese: Companhia de Cacheu e Cabo Verde) was a chartered company created by Portugal which operated the colonies of Cacheu and Cape Verde in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was created as part of the economic reforms of Luís de Meneses, 3rd Count of Ericeira, under King Peter II.

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  • The Cacheu and Cape Verde Company (Portuguese: Companhia de Cacheu e Cabo Verde) was a chartered company created by Portugal which operated the colonies of Cacheu and Cape Verde in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was created as part of the economic reforms of Luís de Meneses, 3rd Count of Ericeira, under King Peter II. (en)
  • A Companhia de Cabe Verde e Cacheu foi uma empresa monopolista, fundada em Portugal no contexto das reformas económicas de D. Luís de Meneses, 3.º Conde da Ericeira, sob o reinado de D. Pedro II de Portugal. Sucedeu à Companhia de Cacheu, Rios e Comércio da Guiné, cujas atividades haviam cessado em 1682, com os mesmos objetivos: promover o comércio de tecidos manufaturados, marfim e escravos, entre a costa da Guiné e o arquipélago de Cabo Verde, e a do Brasil. (pt)
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  • The Cacheu and Cape Verde Company (Portuguese: Companhia de Cacheu e Cabo Verde) was a chartered company created by Portugal which operated the colonies of Cacheu and Cape Verde in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was created as part of the economic reforms of Luís de Meneses, 3rd Count of Ericeira, under King Peter II. The company succeeded the Company of Cacheu and Rivers and Commerce of Guinea (which had ceased operating in 1682), with the same objectives: to improve the trade in manufactured goods, ivory, and slaves between the coast of Guinea (modern-day Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, and Brazil. Created by Alvará Régio on 3 January 1690, it was initially successful, but then faced competition for the slave trade with the Spanish Americas between 1696 and 1703. In that year the Portuguese crown did not renew the contract for exploration. The Captaincy of Bissau was abandoned in 1707 as Fort Bissau was destroyed. The decline in the company's activities resulted in an economic stagnation in the two African territories, which would only begin to recover decades later with the transfer of the company's rights to the Grão Pará and Maranhão General Company based in Brazil from 1757 to 1777. During the end of the Pombaline Era, the company became part of the Islands of Cape Verde, Bissau and Cacheu Chartered and Commerce Company. (en)
  • A Companhia de Cabe Verde e Cacheu foi uma empresa monopolista, fundada em Portugal no contexto das reformas económicas de D. Luís de Meneses, 3.º Conde da Ericeira, sob o reinado de D. Pedro II de Portugal. Sucedeu à Companhia de Cacheu, Rios e Comércio da Guiné, cujas atividades haviam cessado em 1682, com os mesmos objetivos: promover o comércio de tecidos manufaturados, marfim e escravos, entre a costa da Guiné e o arquipélago de Cabo Verde, e a do Brasil. Foi criada por Alvará Régio a 3 de Janeiro de 1690. O curto período de sucesso que conheceu prendeu-se ao fato de ter conseguido o monopólio do comércio de escravos para a América espanhola no período de 1696 a 1703. Nesse ano, tendo a Coroa deixado de lhe renovar o contrato de exploração, os prejuízoa acumularam-se, o que conduziu ao abandono da em 1707, sendo o Forte de Bissau arrasado na ocasião. O declínio e extinção das atividades da Companhia provocou uma estagnação económica nos dois territórios africanos que só voltariam a conhecer alguma recuperação décadas mais tarde com transferência de seus direitos para a Companhia Geral de Comércio do Grão-Pará e Maranhão de 1757 a 1777, que, com o fim do Período Pombalino, foi depois transformada na ou, simplesmente, Sociedade do Comércio das Ilhas de Cabo Verde até 1786. Esta, por sua vez, foi sucedida pela , que atuou até 1886. (pt)
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