The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
New Methods, Perspectives, and Sources
9789048560493
272 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
In recent years, the archives of the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie (MCC), the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and the notarial archives of Amsterdam (SAA) were included in large-scale digitization projects. As a result, stories that were hidden for hundreds of years about the ins and outs of the trans-Atlantic slave trade are coming to light, waiting to be told.
This new data, combined with digital tools, has allowed a new generation of historians to conduct in-depth research and analysis on previously understudies aspects of the Dutch Transatlantic slave trade.
Author Bio
Ramona Negrón is a PhD candidate at Leiden University, Data Curator at the Amsterdam City Archives, and Editor of Holland Historisch Tijdschrift. She is co-author of of the book De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt, which was published in 2022. In the Fall of 2024, she will commence a postdoctoral position at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV).
Jessica den Oudsten is a PhD candidate at Radboud University, Guest Researcher at the Huygens Institute and Data Curator at the Amsterdam City Archives. Her research focuses on integration and social mobility of immigrants and their descendants in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1811. She specialises in early modern maritime history and migration history. She is co-author of the book De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt.
Camilla de Koning is a PhD-student at the University of Manchester and Historic Royal Palaces. Her project ‘Crown Engagement in Britain’s Emerging Empire 1660-1775’ analyses how the British Royal family, as individuals, was involved with the colonial empire. Asides from this she continues research on the Dutch Atlantic, focusing on kinship in/and slavery.
Karwan Fatah-Black is lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University. He is a prominent voice in the academic and societal debates on colonial history and its legacies. Karwan Fatah-Black is senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV-KNAW) and university lecturer at Leiden University. Since completing his PhD (2013) he has studied the history of the Atlantic world, enslavement, and emancipation strategies. With museums and heritage institutions he works on creating new narratives about the colonial past and post-colonial futures.
