Format:
350 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9789045044279
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9045044277
Uniform Title:
Slavery (Ausstellungskatalog)
Content:
Foreword. Together we write history /Taco Dibbits --Slavery : an exhibition of many voices /Eveline Sint Nicolaas, Valika Smeulders --Dutch colonial slavery /Eveline Sint Nicolaas --Living inside the slavery system --João : caught in the crossfire in Dutch Brazil /Stephanie Archangel --Wally : surviving on a plantation in Suriname /Eveline Sint Nicolaas --Oopjen : wealth in the Dutch republic /Eveline Sint Nicolaas --Paulus : a ‘moor’ in the Dutch republic /Valika Smeulders, Lisa Lambrechts --van Bengalen : shipped to Batavia, Banda, Cape Town and Dokkum /Maria Holtrop --Thinking about freedom --Surapati : from enslaved servant to sovereign /Maria Holtrop --Sapali : an independent society /Valika Smeulders --Tula : liberty, equality and fraternity /Valika Smeulders --Dirk : from abolitionist to slaveholder /Valika Smeulders, Lisa Lambrechts --Lohkay : beads versus laws /Valika Smeulders --Talking about slavery --Current thinking about slavery in the Netherlands /Karwan Fatah-Black, Martine Gosselink --Works in the exhibition
Content:
"What did a woman who lived and worked under slavery know about her ‘owner’ in the Dutch Republic? What did an owner of a sugar factory in Amsterdam know about the circumstances under which the sugar he processed was grown? And what did a freedom fighter on Curaçao know about the struggle for equal civil rights in Europe? Under Dutch rule during the colonial era, more than a million men, women and children from Asia and Africa were enslaved and shipped to the other side of the world. Very little is known about their lives. Using a variety of sources, Slavery provides a portrait of ten people from this period: people who suffered under the slavery system, people who rose in resistance against it and people who profited from it. This broad palette of individual experiences reveals diverse facets of the Dutch history of slavery and gives us a unique isight into the societal reality of the time"--
Content:
During colonial slavery, millions of people were reduced to the possession of another. The life stories of only a part of all those involved can be found. In an exhibition, the Rijksmuseum focuses on ten historical persons, known and less well-known. With this personal view, the museum wants to provide slavery with faces and make the universal, timeless relevance of this history tangible. How should we imagine the harsh life of a man in slavery on a plantation in Brazil in the seventeenth century? Or the luxurious life of a Dutch slave trader at the same time? Or that of a woman who managed to flee the plantation? This richly illustrated publication describes the lives of ten people who were part of the Dutch colonial history of slavery and who are central to the exhibition Slavery in the Rijksmuseum. We meet, among others, the African João Mina who worked on a sugar plantation in Brazil, with Jonas Witsen, owner of a plantation in Suriname, Untung Surapati, who broke free from slavery and became a national hero in Indonesia, and with the illustrious One- Tété Lokhay, who was a source of inspiration for the people who brought the slavery system to a halt in Sint Maarten. Through their stories, history is given relief and we get a better view of the system of slavery, its experience, and how people thought about freedom at the time. In the closing essay, the balance is drawn up: where do we stand in our approach to the colonial slavery past in 2020? The exhibition focuses on the Dutch involvement in the slave trade and slavery. The Dutch colonial period is central, from the 17th to the 19th century, both in the triangle of the Netherlands-Africa-America and in the countries around the Indian Ocean where the VOC was active. Exhibition: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (12.2-30.5.2021)
Note:
Impressum: This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Slavery" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. - Genaue Ausstellungsdaten ermittelt: "Slavery. Ten True Stories", 18. Mai bis 29. August 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-334) and index
Additional Edition:
Parallele Sprachausgabe Slavernij
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Niederlande
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Sklave
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Sklaverei
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Kolonie
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Geschichte
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Aufsatzsammlung
