Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World, Day 1
- Friday, May 3, 2024
- Sold Out
- Free
Event Details:
On December 19, 2022, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte formally apologized for his country’s involvement in slavery and the slave trade. Rutte noted that historical research grounded in archival documents will play an important role in the “Slavery Memorial Year,” declared by the Dutch government to run from July 1, 2023 through July 1, 2024.
Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World, a two-day conference in New York City presented in partnership with the New Netherland Institute, will help extend the call for increased historical research on slavery in the United States. Held at the New-York Historical Society on the Upper West Side and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, it will convene academic scholars, researchers, public historians, archivists, and librarians from the Netherlands and the United States. Together, they will weigh the history and legacy of slavery, the slave trade, and colonialism in New Netherland, the Netherlands, and the Americas.
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Please note:
Friday’s programming will take place at 515 Malcolm X Blvd in the Langston Hughes Auditorium at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
Saturday’s programming will take place at 170 Central Park West in the Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society.
Conference attendees may select a ticket for one or both days of the conference. Conference attendees wishing to register for both days must add both to their cart. After adding the first date to your cart, please click the "Back" button twice to return to the landing page to select the second date. If you need assistance, please email libraryprogram@nyhistory.org.
Schedule:
9–9:15 am: Welcome
Joy Bivins, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Deborah Hamer, Director, New Netherland Institute
9:15–11 am:
Panel 1: The Slave Trade in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World
Dennis Maika, The New Netherland Institute
In Search of New York’s Enslavers: Assessing the Impact of Private Entrepreneurs on Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Enslaved in late 17th century New York
Jeroen Puttevils, University of Antwerp
A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the Golden Sixteenth Century: the Early Participation of the Southern Low Countries in the Slave Trade (until c. 1600)
Nancy Jouwe, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Dutch Interconnectedness of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Indian Ocean Slavery
Valika Smeulders, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
‘… placing a Moor next to young girls’: the Colonial World Order in Dutch Art
Moderator: Christopher L. Brown, Columbia University
11–11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm:
Panel 2: Foundations
Michiel van Groesen, Leiden University
Slavery in Dutch Brazil
Matthias van Rossum, International Institute of Social History
Colonial Slavery in the Dutch Empire: Exploring Early Connections and Transfers from VOC Asia
Oscar Hefting, The New Holland Foundation
The Atlas of Dutch West Africa: New Research on 17th century WIC Fortifications in West Africa
Moderator: Wim Klooster, Clark University
12:45–2:15 pm: Lunch on Your Own
2:15–3:45 pm
Panel 3: Dutch Slavery in North America
Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University
New Netherland and Indigenous Slavery
Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley
The Captives of the Bruynvisch: New Insights into the Origins and Identity of Manhattan’s First Enslaved Africans
Jennifer Tosch, Black Heritage Tours
Black Heritage Tours: New York State & Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Transatlantic narratives connecting Dutch, African and Native American Histories
Moderator: Andrew Lipman, Barnard College
3:45–4 pm: Break
4–5:30 pm:
Panel 4: Negotiating Slavery and Freedom
Myra Armstead, Bard College
Deconstructing Manumission
Karwan Fatah-Black, Leiden University
Repent and Reappraisal: Historicizing Slavery’s Defenders in the Netherlands
Marjoleine Kars, MIT
Negotiating Slavery and Freedom in the Dutch Atlantic: A Berbice Slave Rebel in Suriname
Moderator: Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University
Location:
The Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, 10037
Ticket Instructions:
This event is sold out.
Lead support for Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World is provided by the Ford Foundation. Major support is provided by a grant from the US Embassy The Hague. This program is supported as part of the DutchCultureUSA FUTURE 400 program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
The participation of Jeroen Dewulf and Jeroen Puttevils is supported by the Delegation of Flanders to the USA.
Philanthropic support for New Amsterdam 400 is provided by New York Life. Lead support is also provided by The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Major support is provided by Jeffrey Bewkes, the Citco group of Companies, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support is provided by Alex Roepers and Nina and Tim Zagat.
