page_title: Mississippi Company
hierarchical_section_title: Mississippi Company
caption_attribution_description: Image of John Law Camp. The image is only being used in the article about the deceased person (John Law Camp ) for informational and educational purposes. Source: Africans in Colonial Louisiana By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, American Council of Learned Societies. See also&#160;: [1]
context_page_description: The Mississippi Company was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies. When land development and speculation in the region became frenzied and detached from economic reality, the Mississippi bubble became one of the earliest examples of an economic bubble.
context_section_description: The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies. When land development and speculation in the region became frenzied and detached from economic reality, the Mississippi bubble became one of the earliest examples of an economic bubble.
caption: View of the camp of John Law at Biloxi, December 1720
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