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Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Variations of African Life in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands: Between a Boy Servant at the Court of Orange-Nassau and a Lord of the Manor in the Province of Groningen

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Today De Gruyter Oldenbourg published the book 'The European Experience in Slavery, 1650-1850', edited by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt o...
Thursday, 8 October 2020

Jacob de Petersen (1703-1780): Slave trader, West India Company official, and member of the Amsterdam city government

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This blog reproduces a short biographical sketch of Jacob de Petersen (1703-1780), one of the most powerful men in the Dutch West India Comp...
Sunday, 21 August 2016

An African baptism in Delft, 1794

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"Baptism of a negro lady from the Coast of Africa" In the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, there is an image of a ba...
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Friday, 15 July 2016

Elmina in 1865: New photographs discovered

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Pictures of Elmina Photographs of the town of Elmina in the Dutch period, i.e before 1872, are quite rare. There are some, and there are...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016

'The White Man's Grave': A suicide in Elmina, 1749 (2)

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Last week I wrote about the case of the Dutch West India Company sergeant Pierre Richer , who deliberately killed himself while on duty in F...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

'The White Man's Grave': A suicide in Elmina, 1749 (1)

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The coastal areas of West Africa were long known as 'The White Man's Grave' due to its harsh climatic conditions and the endemic...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Famine on the Gold Coast, 1749

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One of the prevailing images of Africa as a continent is that of natural disaster, especially drought, and crop failure, more often than not...