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Netherlands’ apology on slavery
July 15 , 2023
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- The year 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the abolishment of slavery in Suriname and in Dutch colonies in the Caribbean in 1873.
- The king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, has apologised for his country’s role in the slavery of colonised people, beginning in the 16th Century.
- The Dutch were involved themselves in the transatlantic slave trade like other European nations.
- Between 1596 and 1829, the Dutch transported about half a million Africans across the Atlantic.
- More than 600,000 people were transported across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa aboard Dutch ships, to be sold as slaves or put to work on plantations.
- Around 75,000 did not survive the crossing.
- It found that between 1945 and 1949, the Dutch used “excessive violence” in Indonesia after World War 2.
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