The Dutch Atlantic : slavery, abolition and emancipation / Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nimako, Kwame.

Contributor:

Willemsen, Glenn Frank Walter.

Series:

Decolonial studies, postcolonial horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Netherlands--History.

Slavery.

Antislavery movements--Netherlands--History.

Antislavery movements.

Slave trade--Netherlands--History.

Slave trade.

History.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

xxi, 217 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2011.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction, Goals and Issues

Chapter 2 Transatlantic Slavery and the Rise of the European World Order

Chapter 3 Chattel Slavery, Sugar and Salt

Chapter 4 Abolition without Emancipation

Chapter 5 Trajectories of Emancipation: Religion, Class, Gender and Race

Chapter 6 The Legacy of Slavery: the Unfinished Business of Emancipation

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Parallel Histories and Intertwined Belonging.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745331076

9780745331072

0745331084

9780745331089

OCLC:

694147421