. The Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) . he period from1729 to 1749, sugar was exported but a single year *^ to a foreignport. It was in September, 1729, that the Company began re-fining its own sugar,^^ and this fact, combined with the kingsedict of July 4,1733, requiring privately owned refineries to useonly the sugar that came from the West Indian colonies as longas the supply held out, will explain the falling off in purchase by the Company in 1737 of the two principalrefineries, those owned by the Pelt and Weyse families, gave theCompany a monopoly of the refi
. The Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) . he period from1729 to 1749, sugar was exported but a single year *^ to a foreignport. It was in September, 1729, that the Company began re-fining its own sugar,^^ and this fact, combined with the kingsedict of July 4,1733, requiring privately owned refineries to useonly the sugar that came from the West Indian colonies as longas the supply held out, will explain the falling off in purchase by the Company in 1737 of the two principalrefineries, those owned by the Pelt and Weyse families, gave theCompany a monopoly of the refining business,^^ and made itpossible for it to absorb most of its own sugar.^ * Udskibnings og Passeer Sedlers-Copie-Bog, 1709-1754, passim. ^^ In 1741, 11,443 lbs. of sugar were sent to Stockholm. Ibid. 42 Manager MS., 130. The Company had been granted the privilege of put-ting up a refinery, by the king on April 17, 1721. Vest. Reg., 1699-1746. *^ Mariager MS., 149. 44 See table showing exports to domestic and foreign places in Appendix L,pp. CHAPTER VII THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES The rise of a class of capitalist planters in the Danish as wellas in the other West India islands, was made possible throughthe labors of the African slave. Indentured white servantstoo frequently succumbed to the climate or proved quite in-tractable as laborers; while the attempt to use deported crim-inals from the home country proved generally abortive, in theWest Indies as elsewhere. The sudden change in habits andenvironment practically prohibited strenuous effort on the partof the whites whose lot was cast in tropical America. If theagricultural resources of those regions were to be appreciablydeveloped, it must come about through the white mans effortsto earn his bread by the sweat of the negros brow. It wasthe blacks bought by way of trade who by reason of theirready adaptability to field labor early became the most usefulappurtenances of a plantation, and perpetual
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