Slavery and The Dutch State – Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives Allen

Slavery and the Dutch StateDutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives\nAuthor(s): Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias Rossum, Urwin Vyent\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Leiden University Press, Netherlands\nImprint: Leiden University Press\nISBN-13: 9789087284602, 978-9087284602\nSynopsis\nIt is the paradox at the heart of the Dutch Republic: how could a state emerge from resistance to political slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a colonial empire that promoted slavery all over the world? Slavery and the Dutch State shows how the modern Dutch state and its predecessors were complicit in colonial slavery. It describes the roles of various actors, such as enslaved people, administrators and merchants in the Netherlands and the colonized societies. More than thirty authors discuss the afterlives of slavery, the systematic nature of slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the worldwide scope of slavery, and the various individuals, groups and organi.