The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680

The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680

Author: Cornelis CH. Goslinga

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2018-02-26

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 1947372734

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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.


The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880

The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880

Author: Pieter Emmer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 104024842X

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This volume provides the first survey in English of the Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system. It covers the period from the origins of the trade and the Dutch conquest of part of Brazil in the early 17th century, to the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies in the later 19th century. Individual chapters focus on the ’investment bubble’ in the Dutch plantation colonies, Dutch participation in the illegal slave trade, and the effects of ameliorisation policies and then emancipation on the slaves of Suriname. Professor Emmer also highlights the particular characteristics of the Dutch West India Company - markedly different from the better-known East India Company - and the low-key nature of the debate on slave emancipation in The Netherlands.


Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800

Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800

Author: Gert Oostindie

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-06-20

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9004271317

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This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.


The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815

The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815

Author: Johannes M. Postma

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-03

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780521048248

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Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the beginning of the 1600s to the nineteenth century.


Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa

Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa

Author: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 9004201513

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By looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisation and their role on the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.


The Dutch Caribbean

The Dutch Caribbean

Author: Betty Nelly Sedoc-Dahlberg

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9782881243851

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For abstract see: Caribbean abstracts, no. 1 (1990); p. 121, no. 557; Itinerario, vol. 14, no. 3/4 (1990); p. 52, no. 4574. - For review see: Rosemarijn Hoefte, in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 51 (December 1991); p. 150-151; Peter Meel, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 66, no. 3 & 4 (1992); p. 262-265.


Beyond 1619

Beyond 1619

Author: Paul J. Polgar

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1512825026

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Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context. In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race-based slavery and its aftermath, with 1619--the year that the first recorded enslaved persons of African descent arrived in British North America--taking center stage as its starting point. Yet this dialogue has inadvertently narrowed our understanding of slavery, race, and their repercussions to the U.S. context. Beyond 1619 showcases the fruitful results when scholars examine and put into conversation multiple empires, regions, peoples, and cultures to get a more complete view of the rise of racial slavery in the Americas. Painting racial slavery's emergence on a hemispheric canvass, and in one compact volume, provides historical context beyond the 1619 moment for discussions of slavery, racism, antiracism, freedom, and lasting inequalities. In the process, this volume shines new light on these critical topics andillustrates the centrality of racial slavery, and contests over its rise, in nearly every corner of the early modern Atlantic World. Contributors: John N. Blanton, Jesse Cromwell, Erika Denise Edwards, Rebecca Anne Goetz, Rana Hogarth, Chloe L. Ireton, Marc H. Lerner, Paul J. Polgar, Brett Rushforth, Casey Schmitt, Jenny Shaw, James Sidbury.


The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850

The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850

Author: Karen Racine

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2010-11-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1442206993

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This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to 1850, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850 explores transatlantic connections by following individuals—be they slaves, traders, or adventurers—whose experience took them far beyond their local communities to new and unfamiliar places. Whatever their reasons, tremendous creativity and dynamism resulted from contact between people of different cultures, classes, races, ideas, and systems in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By emphasizing movement and circulation in its choice of life stories, this readable and engaging volume presents a broad cross-section of people—both famous and everyday—whose lives and livelihoods took them across the Atlantic and brought disparate cultures into contact.


Creolization and Contraband

Creolization and Contraband

Author: Linda M. Rupert

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0820343064

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When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern Curaçao. The other was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. Creolization and Contraband uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers, smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society.