March 23, 1700 - Pieter Woortman
Woortman spent decades embedded in the administrative machinery of the Dutch West India Company, ultimately rising to the senior-most colonial post on the Gold Coast — a position whose core function was the management and export of enslaved Africans. His tenure as Director-General, spanning from 1767 until his death in 1780, made him one of the longest-serving figures to oversee Dutch slaving operations in West Africa during the trade's later period.
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Pieter Woortman (born 23 March 1700 – 14 April 1780) was a Prussian born Dutch slave trader and colonial administrator of the Dutch West India Company. He was one of the longest-serving Director-General of the Dutch Gold Coast, in office between 1767 and 1769 (ad interim) and from 1769 until his death in 1780.
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