Dutch Cities in Global Slavery

New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 96, pp. 332–338

Abstract

In the Netherlands, slavery is a contested issue that is closely connected with increasingly polarized debates about Dutch citizenship and identity.At the same time, precisely because it is (largely) a thing of the past and universally seen as a moral wrong, slavery has also become, to paraphrase historian Ira Berlin, a way to talk about race and discrimination in the present.1It is in this

Authors 1

1. Johanna C. Kardux corresponding Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Leiden University North American Studies the Netherlands Leiden

   Leiden University