From Valuable Merchandise to Violent Rebels : Depicting Enslaved Africans in the Dutch Periodical Press in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; From Valuable Merchandise to Violent Rebels: Depicting Enslaved Africans in the Dutch Periodical Press in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
From the moment the Dutch West Indian Company formally entered the slave trade in 1637, the Dutch periodical press consistently carried reports on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. This article offers a long-term analysis of this coverage in the Dutch Republic, showing for the first time how the representation of slavery developed over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It demonstrates, first, that through the periodical press, knowledge of slavery was more widely spread in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century than is often assumed. The consistent, if intermittent, new... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
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Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27413345 |
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Link(s) : | https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/12793 |