This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.
Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of European populations in the implementation of policies that facilitated Atlantic slavery and examine how European countries created and expanded laws that perpetuated colonisation.

Addressing key themes such as the incorporation of the formerly enslaved into post-slavery states and contemporary collective efforts to forget and/or remember slavery and its legacy in the Netherlands, this is an essential text for students of European history and postcolonial studies.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Stephen Small, UC Berkeley

Preface

Artwell Cain, NiNsee

1. Introduction, Goals and Issues

Introduction and Goals

Context and Concepts

Importance and Relevance

Overview of Chapters

2. Transatlantic Slavery and the Rise of the European

World Order

The Age of Banditry (1492-1648)

Sovereignty and Chattel Slavery (1648-1789)

Citizenship, Slavery and the 'Free Soil Ideology'

Science and Chattel Slavery

3. Chattel Slavery, Sugar and Salt

Slavery and the Making of Global Economy

Slavery and Sugar

Sugar and Suriname

Pacification and Resistance

4. Abolition without Emancipation

European and Systemic Context

From Regulation to Intervention

Modalities of Abolition: Progressive Control versus

Transformative Change

Abolition and Citizenship

5. Trajectories of Emancipation: Religion, Class,

Gender and Race

Religion and Emancipation

Class and Emancipation

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Gender and Emancipation

Race and Emancipation

The Immediate Aftermath of Abolition

6. The Legacy of Slavery: The Unfinished Business of

Emancipation

Memory and Dignitarianism

Commemorators and Commemoration

Integration and Multiculturalism

NiNsee as a Contested Project

Museums and Galleries

Reparations

Anniversaries and Apologies

7. Conclusion: Parallel Histories and Intertwined

Belonging

Some Conclusions

A Final Note

Bibliography

Index