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Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery Firstpost 4 hours ago The Associated Press © Provided by Firstpost Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery Amsterdam: The delicacy of one of the first objects in a new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron rod are the artistically interwoven letters GWC used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of enslaved workers. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching exhibition titled, simply,

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