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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation20 February 2024How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when study...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands27 October 2023The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinam...
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery27 September 2021What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in h...