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The Dutch were also enslaved after the Middle Ages. In particular, North African privateers and merchants, also known as Barbary pirates, operating under the banner of the Ottoman Empire, targeted Europeans for, among other things, construction projects and as galley slaves.
1 cze 2021 · For the exhibition, curators united more than 140 artifacts that trace the history of Dutch involvement in the slave trade between the early 1600s and 1863, when the practice was outlawed in...
A ground-breaking new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores personal accounts of slavery in the period of art known as the Dutch Golden Age. Cath Pound takes a look.
The history of slavery. For more than 300 years, adults and children were abducted from various parts of Africa ─ by Dutch and other slave traders ─ and transported under the most appalling conditions to the former Dutch colonies of Suriname and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St Eustatius and St Maarten.
The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies —mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company —and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands ...
SLAVE TRADING AND SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE: A GLOBAL COMPARISON Introduction From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, slavery played a fundamental role in the Dutch colonial empire.1 All overseas possessions of the Dutch depended in varying degrees on the labor of slaves who were imported from diverse and often ...
The involvement of the Dutch in the transatlantic slave trade took place between the end of the 16 th century and the late 19 th century. While the Spanish and Portuguese can be seen as the pioneers of the transatlantic trade, the Dutch were eager to join as the trade turned out to be profitable.
