The Legitimacy of Resistance in Dutch Abolitionist Theater

This chapter explores the ways in which Dutch authors, thespians, and audiences envisioned slave-led resistance through a comparative examination of Nicolaas Simon van Winter's infinitely popular tragedy Monzongo, of de koningklyke slaaf (1774), the anonymously written De verlossing der slaaven door de Franschen (1794), and Johannes Kisselius’ De blanke en de zwarte (1798). If slave-led opposition in the Atlantic was viciously curbed by white officials, militias, or colonial policies, this chapter will demonstrate that dramatists and spectators alike, despite their antislavery beliefs, dispara... Mehr ...