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"P. C. Emmer tells the story of Dutch involvement in the trade from the beginning of the 17th century - much later than the Spaniards and the Portuguese - and goes on to show how the trade shifted from Brazil to the Caribbean. He explains how the purchase of slaves was organized in Africa, records their dramatic transport across the Atlantic, and examines how the sales machinery worked. Drawing on his prolonged study of the Dutch Atlantic slave trade, he presents his subject clearly and soberly, although never forgetting the tragedy hidden behind the numbers - the dark side of the Dutch Golden Age - which makes this study not only informative but also very readable."
From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
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The Dutch Slave Trade (European Expansion & Global Interaction, 5) Hardcover – December 15, 2005

by Pieter Emmer (Author), Chris Emery (Translator)
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Dutch historiography has traditionally concentrated on colonial successes in Asia. However, the Dutch were also active in West Africa, Brazil, New Netherland (the present state of New York) and in the Caribbean. In Africa they took part in the gold and ivory trade and finally also in the slave trade, something not widely known outside academic circles. P.C. Emmer, one of the most prominent experts in this field, tells the story of Dutch involvement in the trade from the beginning of the 17th century–much later than the Spaniards and the Portuguese–and goes on to show how the trade shifted from Brazil to the Caribbean. He explains how the purchase of slaves was organized in Africa, records their dramatic transport across the Atlantic, and examines how the sales machinery worked. Drawing on his prolonged study of the Dutch Atlantic slave trade, he presents his subject clearly and soberly, although never forgetting the tragedy hidden behind the numbers – the dark side of the Dutch Golden Age -, which makes this study not only informative but also very readable.

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  1. Print length
    176 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Berghahn Books
  4. Publication date
    December 15, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.1 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1845450310
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1845450311
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“[Emmer offers] a compelling and well researched story of the relationship between power and greed in shaping the dealings of the Dutch with the non-European world before 1850, and how this in turn shaped Dutch history…Emmer’s account of the Dutch slave trade, and issues of moral conscience and national identity that underpin it,is likely to encourage yet more research and reflection among both scholars and others on how slavery was interwoven with the history of other European nations.” · The International History Review

“…a succinct overview of the state of research on the Dutch Atlantic slave trade from its emergence in the early seventeenth century until its disappearance nearly two centuries later, as ell as a brief discussion of its moral implications.” · Business History Review

“[This book] is to be highly recommended to anybody who is looking for brief and concise information on key aspects of the Dutch slave trade.” · Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte

“This is a short book on what turns out to be a rather bigger subject than might have been expected from the title; not because the Dutch slave trade was so important, but because Emmer uses it as an entry to a wide range of issues concerning the Atlantic slave trade in general and its historiography...a triumph of concision… It is remarkable how much interesting material and controversial argument he has managed to pack into such a limited space. The translation by Chris Emery from the original Dutch text is clear and reads well." · Reviews in History

About the Author

Pieter C. Emmer is Professor of the History of the Expansion of Europe and the related migration movements at University of Leiden. He was a visiting fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK (1978-79), at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2000-2001) and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2002-2003), Wassenaar, The Netherlands. He served as visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-87) and at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1996-97). Pieter Emmer is member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Lateinamerikas, Studien zur historischen Migrationsforschung, Journal of Caribbean History, Itinerario and author of The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880 (Aldershot, 1998) and co-editor of Migration, Integration, Minorities, a European Encyclopaedia to be published by Cambridge University Press. In 2004, he became a member of the Academia Europaea.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berghahn Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2005
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1845450310
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1845450311
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
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  • huckelberry
    1.0 out of 5 stars Like it is written on drugs
    Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019
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    This book isn t worth the paper it is written on. I am even startled that the author had a university position. It tells you more about how messed up academia is than it gives a proper informative history of the Dutch Slave trade. The author is all over the place, Its highly charged with emotion and lacks a proper out line or even an idea at all. This book is worst than a zero.
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