Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World, Day 2
- Saturday, May 4, 2024
- Sold Out
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 remarks
Russell Shorto, New Amsterdam Project at New-York Historical Society
Ahmed Dadou, Consul General, The Netherlands
Rita Joseph, Chair of the Committee on Education, New York City Council
9:15–10:45 am
Panel 5: Women and Slavery
Susanah Romney, NYU
Reytory, Palesa, and Lysbeth: Building Biographies of Black Women in New Amsterdam
Nicole Maskiell, University of South Carolina
Fifty Bevers: The Gender of Slavery in New Netherland
Andrea Mosterman, University of New Orleans
"I was their midwife": Enslaved Women, Pregnancy, and Motherhood on Dutch Slave Ships
Moderator: Suze Zijlstra, Het Scheepvaartsmuseum (The National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam)
11-11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm:
Panel 6: Illicit Trade, Piracy, and Privateering
Jessica Vance Roitman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Manumission as a Mask: The Illicit Trade in Slaves in the Eastern Caribbean
Erik Odegard, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
People as Prize: Privateering and Slavery in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Atlantic
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, University of Rochester
Return to an Unknown City: Dutch Slaving in Post-1683 Veracruz
Moderator: Erin Kramer, Trinity University
12:45–2:15 pm: Lunch on Your Own
2:15–3:45 pm:
Panel 7: Microhistories
Mark Ponte, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Black Sailors in the ‘Dutch’ Atlantic: The Case of Manuel Pieters
Peter Arnade, University of Hawaiʻi
Lose your Father(land): Jacobus Capitein returns to Elmina
Melissa Morris, University of Wyoming
Juan Rodriguez: A Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Life
Moderator: Wendy Warren, Princeton University
3:45–4 pm: Break
4–5:15 pm:
Keynote Address
Jennifer Morgan, New York University
Living Quarters: Gender, Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic
5:15–6:45 pm: Closing Reception
Location:
The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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.
