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Sojourner Truth: How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement
27 November 2023
On 31 March 1817, the New York legislature decided that enslavement within its borders had to come to an end. Final emancipation would occur on 4 July 1827. Coincidentally, the date of choice was almost exactly two centuries after the Dutch West India Company’s yacht Bruynvisch arrived at Manhatta
Harvest of the University Press (autumn 2023)
7 November 2023
Universities all over the world publish academic monographs and scientific journals on the Low Countries that deserve wider attention. In this article, we present you with a selection of recent university press publications in English.
United Nations Headquarters in New York to Stage Rijksmuseum’s Slavery Exhibition
28 February 2023
The acclaimed Slavery exhibition of the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history, is on display at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. Originally conceived and mounted in Amsterdam in 2021, an adapted version of the exhibition is open to the public in the Visitors
The Vital Role of Translation in the Black Lives Matter Era
27 September 2022
Translation throws up numerous issues, many of which go beyond linguistic dilemmas. As Dutch Studies students at the University of Sheffield, this wasn’t a new discovery – we know language and culture are inseparable – but one issue came to dominate our recent translation project, one which to
How the Story of an Enslaved Boy Transformed Into a Shared Dutch History
27 September 2022
The most detailed account of the life and the conditions of the plantation colony of Suriname at the end of the 18th century is recorded in English by the Dutch-Scottish army officer John Gabriel Stedman. It is through his writing that author-researcher Ineke Mok found Quaco, an enslaved boy capture
The Obscured Story of Aspasia and Other Enslaved People in Dutch Archives
24 August 2022
For a long time, the study of the history of Dutch slavery has been dominated by the perspective of the coloniser. Slave traders and plantation owners compiled the sources that are presently available, while the experiences of enslaved people themselves have rarely been preserved. But more and more
Hidden Slavery Story Translated Into English for First Time
26 April 2022
A Dutch graphic novel revealing a new insight into the lives of millions of Africans who fell victim to the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been brought to English speakers across the globe for the first time, thanks to modern languages students at the University of Sheffield.
The Zeeland Slavery Monument: Sober Reminder of an Inhuman Trade
11 March 2022
The Zeeland Slavery Monument reminds us of the important but inhumane role the city of Middelburg played in the Dutch slave trade.
The Untold Story of the ‘Belgian’ Slave Trade
30 August 2021
It is well known that the great European powers were involved in slavery. But that the Southern Netherlands were also heavily invested in the slave trade is much less known. In the late eighteenth century, various ships departed from hotspot Ostend to the coasts of West and Central Africa to exchang
Approved by the Bible. The Slave Trade of the Dutch West India Company
24 August 2021
Founded four hundred years ago, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) waged war at sea, and colonized territories in West Africa and the Caribbean until its dissolution in 1791. The WIC not only traded in goods, but also in people. Why did the Company become involved in the transatlantic slave trade? A
Betül Sefika: Crops
28 April 2021
Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors bring an artefact to life from the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Betül Sefika was inspired for her visual poem by a rice stalk of the Ma Sapi variety, which is directly descended from rice seeds that were smuggled from Africa to Surinam
