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Brandenburg African Company controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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    Participation in the transatlantic slave trade

    The Brandenburg African Company was established partly to support Brandenburg-Prussia's entry into Atlantic slavery. Its Gold Coast operations increasingly focused on the coercive trade in enslaved people, and the company's colonial and commercial activities are therefore part of the history of European slavery and colonial exploitation.