Etiket: slavery
Groningen will have two separate monuments for the VOC and WIC slavery history. ‘Does more justice to the descendants’
Groningen will have two separate monuments, for both the city’s Trans-Atlantic and Asian slavery history. Researchers have also found evidence for the involvement of the city government in the slave…
Start internet consultation scheme for social initiatives on the history of slavery | News item
News item | 16-02-2024 | 17:28 The subsidy scheme for social initiatives in the History of Slavery program will be put into internet consultation. The scheme that is now being…
How does the National Slavery Museum become ‘belonging to all of us’?
The new National Slavery Museum should be located on Java Island in Amsterdam. It should be 9,000 square meters in size and should mainly be about the transatlantic slave trade…
History lessons in pre-vocational secondary education are too focused on Europe: take our slavery past out of the obscurity | opinion
The dark pages of our history are not discussed enough in pre-vocational secondary education, says Gijs Korenblik. He advocates removing them from obscurity and treating them prominently. We already knew…
Khalid & Sophie scores very poorly with show about slavery excuses
According to ratings authority Tina Nijkamp, Khalid & Sophie scored very poorly with the broadcast about one year of slavery apologies. “It scores far below what it normally scores.” ©…
TV review | Courageous from Khalid & Sophie, a broadcast about slavery, but it was so nice and boring
When would the editors of Khalid & Sophie have you thought of devoting an entire broadcast, on location, to the history of slavery? Before or after the elections? Tuesday marked…
No apologies or recognition for Hoorn’s history of slavery, but city conversations
Hoorn makes no apologies for the leading role that the Hoorn city council played in the history of slavery. The municipality will also not recognize that role. The proposals from…
Start campaign with personal stories about the history of slavery | News item
News item | 11-12-2023 | 07:00 More conversations between people and awareness about our shared past. With that aim in mind, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is launching…
The emperor who fought against slavery
The Emperor of Brazil hovered between life and death. Pedro II was admitted to a hospital in Milan while traveling through Europe and had already received the last ointment when,…
King addresses Curaçao residents in letter about rehabilitation of slavery hero Tula: ‘He was a hero in his actions and thoughts’
228 years after he led the slave uprising on his island and was executed, Curaçao’s national hero Tula received rehabilitation from the Dutch government on Wednesday evening (local time). The…