Dutch Atlantic

Kwame Nimako teaches International Relations at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam. He is the co-author of The Dutch Atlantic (Pluto, 2011).Glenn Willemsen (1948-2008) was the first director of the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) from 2003 to 2008. He was also Adjunct Professor at the Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1999 to 2008. He is co-author of The Dutch Atlantic (Pluto, 2011).

• Acknowledgements Foreword Stephen Small, UC BerkeleyPreface Artwell Cain, NiNsee1. Introduction, Goals and Issues Introduction and Goals Context and Concepts Importance and Relevance Overview of Chapters 2. Transatlantic Slavery and the Rise of the EuropeanWorld Order The Age of Banditry (1492–1648) Sovereignty and Chattel Slavery (1648–1789) Citizenship, Slavery and the ‘Free Soil Ideology’ Science and Chattel Slavery 3. Chattel Slavery, Sugar and Salt Slavery and the Making of Global Economy Slavery and Sugar Sugar and Suriname Pacification and Resistance 4. Abolition without Emancipation European and Systemic Context From Regulation to Intervention Modalities of Abolition: Progressive Control versusTransformative Change Abolition and Citizenship 5. Trajectories of Emancipation: Religion, Class,Gender and Race Religion and Emancipation Class and Emancipation viii The Dutch AtlanticGender and Emancipation Race and Emancipation The Immediate Aftermath of Abolition 6. The Legacy of Slavery: The Unfinished Business ofEmancipation Memory and Dignitarianism Commemorators and Commemoration Integration and Multiculturalism NiNsee as a Contested Project Museums and Galleries Reparations Anniversaries and Apologies 7. Conclusion: Parallel Histories and IntertwinedBelonging Some ConclusionsA Final NoteBibliography Index

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