Approved by the Bible. The Slave Trade of the Dutch West India Company
An estimated 600,000 enslaved Africans were traded by the Dutch from West Africa to the Atlantic. Almost half of them were shipped by the West India Company.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
An estimated 600,000 enslaved Africans were traded by the Dutch from West Africa to the Atlantic. Almost half of them were shipped by the West India Company.
It is still something of a guilty secret, but Middelburg grew prosperous from the slave trade.