Nederlandse vrouwen lieten hun afkeer van slavernij blijken met subtiel handwerk:Ons koloniale verleden nr. 36 ; Dutch women expressed their aversion to slavery through delicate embroidery:Our colonial past 36
This article links a collection piece in the Rijksmuseum (collection nbr NG-1991-22) to enlightenment discussions about Freedom and Slavery, starting from the presence of Rousseau in the embroidered tableau. It is part of a series of 50 articles about objects with a link to the colonial past of the Netherlands. The emroidery is linked to Gellerts story of Inkle and Yariko (1781), to a diorama of Rouseeau, Voltaire and Franklin with a black and a white child in the Musée de la Révolution Française (c. 1790), and to a revolutionary drawing by Jacobus Buys (1787) on freedom of press published in... Mehr ...
This article links a collection piece in the Rijksmuseum (collection nbr NG-1991-22) to enlightenment discussions about Freedom and Slavery, starting from the presence of Rousseau in the embroidered tableau. It is part of a series of 50 articles about objects with a link to the colonial past of the Netherlands. The emroidery is linked to Gellerts story of Inkle and Yariko (1781), to a diorama of Rouseeau, Voltaire and Franklin with a black and a white child in the Musée de la Révolution Française (c. 1790), and to a revolutionary drawing by Jacobus Buys (1787) on freedom of press published in the Dutch Batavian Revolt years.