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Telling Stories of Slavery, One Person at a Time


Telling Stories of Slavery, One Person at a Time
A new exhibition in Amsterdam reconstructs personal histories to confront the Netherlands’ extensive and little discussed involvement in the international trade of enslaved people during the colonial era.
Eveline Sint Nicolaas, left, and Valika Smuelders, curated the exhibition “Slavery” at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Credit.Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times
By Nina Siegal
June 4, 2021, 5:07 a.m. ET
AMSTERDAM An ornate tortoise shell box with a real gold nugget on its lid has long been on display in the Rijksmuseum. Considered a high point of Dutch rococo craftsmanship, it was a gift to Prince William IV from the Dutch West India Company in 1749, when he was named the group’s governor. ....

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Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery


Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery
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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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