Slavery Heritage Guide The Netherlands
The bilingual Slavery Heritage Guide the Netherlands (Dutch and English) will be available April 8. A prepublication is now online.
This guide focus is the slavery heritage of the Netherlands as a whole. All in all 100 locations are shown. This way the Guide shows how widespread the connectedness to slavery was
Mapping Slavery portrays historical places relating to slavery on the map of the Dutch colonial empire
Mapping Slavery is a public history project that focuses on the Dutch history of slavery and its intersections of the past and the material, asking questions like:
– Who were the people benefiting from slavery in the Dutch metropole and colonies?
– Where did they live and decide about the investments in slavery of the slave trade?
– What traces of slavery/enslavement can we find in the Netherlands, in the streets, in museums, in archives and in intangible heritage?
– What black presence was there in NL/Europe in earlier ages?
The Slavery Heritage Guide is the third publication in co-operation with the Mapping Slavey project. Previously published: Slavery Heritage Guide Amsterdam and Dutch New York Histories.