The Société Anversoise (English: Company of Antwerp) was a concession company of the Congo Free State,[1] headquartered in Antwerp. It was, with the Lulonga Company and the Abir Congo Company, one of the main producers of rubber in the Free State.[2] Alongside Abir and the Lulonga Company the Société Anversoise handed back control of the concession to the Congo Free State in 1906.[2] The Société Anversoise merged with Abir in 1911 to form the Compagnie du Congo Belge with a focus of the management of rubber plantations instead of the harvesting of naturally occurring rubber.[3][4] The Société Anversoise was quoted on the Antwerp Stock Exchange from 27 July 1898.[4]
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- ^ Harms 1975, p. 78.
- ^ a b Harms 1983, p. 136.
- ^ Christopher 1984, p. 92.
- ^ a b Buelens, Franz; Marysse, Stefaan, Returns on Investments during the Colonial Era: The Case of Congo (2006–7) (PDF), University of Antwerp, p. 17
Bibliography edit
- Christopher, AJ (1984), Colonial Africa, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-389-20452-7
- Harms, Robert (1975), "The End of Red Rubber: A Reassessment", The Journal of African History, 16 (1): 73–88, doi:10.1017/S0021853700014110, JSTOR 181099
- Harms, Robert (1983), "The World Abir Made: The Margina-Lopori Basin, 1885-1903", African Economic History (12): 122–139, JSTOR 3601320