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Dutch historiography has traditionally concentrated on colonial successes in Asia. However, the Dutch were also active in West Africa, Brazil, New Netherland (the present state of New York) and in the Caribbean. In Africa they took part in the gold and ivory trade and finally also in the slave trade, something not widely known outside academic circles. P.C. Emmer, one of the most prominent experts in this field, tells the story of Dutch involvement in the trade from the beginning of the 17th century-much later than the Spaniards and the Portuguese-and goes on to show how the trade shifted from Brazil to the Caribbean. He explains how the purchase of slaves was organized in Africa, records their dramatic transport across the Atlantic, and examines how the sales machinery worked. Drawing on his prolonged study of the Dutch Atlantic slave trade, he presents his subject clearly and soberly, although never forgetting the tragedy hidden behind the numbers - the dark side of the Dutch Golden Age -, which makes this study not only informative but also very readable.
Contents
ForewordChapter 1. The Atlantic Slave Trade: Participate or Not? The Iberian ExampleThe Netherlands and the Slave TradeTo be Forgotten or Remembered?The Greatest Crime against Humanity?The Bridge between Slavery in the Old and the New World: the PortugueseFirst against, Then in FavourThe Volte-Face in Dutch IdeologyThe Slave Trade in Dutch BrazilChapter 2. Greedy Customers: Planters and Plantations in the New WorldThe English and French CaribbeanA Second Dutch 'Brazil'?The Dutch Antilles and the Slave Trade with South AmericaThe Slave Trade to the Dutch Guyanas and the Ending of the WIC's MonopolyChapter 3. The Slaving Voyage: Departure from the Netherlands and Trade on the African CoastPreparing for a Slaving VoyagePreparations for a Slaving VoyageThe Composition of the CargoDid European Goods Harm Africa?On the African Coast: the Purchase of SlavesThe Demographic Costs of the Slave Trade for West AfricaWhere Did the Slaves Come From?Why Did Africa Let So Many Slaves Go?Bosman and Equiano on the Slave TradeChapter 4. The Slaving Voyage: the Crossing from Africa to the West IndiesThe MortalityThe Fight Against DeathShipboard MutiniesThe Middle Passage According to EquianoArrival in the West IndiesThe Sale of SlavesChapter 5. The West Indian Plantations and Their Insatiable Demand for SlavesWhy did the Plantations always Need More Slaves?Insurgents and RunawaysFrom African to American?Chapter 6. The Dutch Economy and the Slave TradeEquiano's Arrival in the West IndiesThe Return Voyage to the NetherlandsProfit and Loss in the Dutch Slave TradeThe Economic Importance of the Dutch Slave TradeThe Cruellest Planters?The Reputation of Suriname and the Dutch Slave TradeChapter 7. The Aftermath: the Abolition of the Dutch Slave Trade, The Illegal Slave Trade and the Transportation of Indentured Labourers from AsiaThe Abolition of the Slave TradeThe Illegal Slave TradeThe Abolition of Slavery in the Dutch ColoniesAfrica without the Slave TradeSuriname without the Slave TradeA New Slave Trade?The Transportation of Asian Indentured Labourers to SurinameChapter 8. Morality and the Slave Trade: Debts of HonourHow Guilty is the Netherlands?Right and Wrong in the History of the DutchBibliographyIndex
