![]() However, it was not until 1834 that slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire. In 1807 Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies and established a network of treaties allowing the British to detain the slave ships of other nations. The campaign to abolish the slave trade developed in a changing international context marked by events such as the French Revolution, as well as acts of resistance from below by enslaved peoples themselves. Before 1820, over 80 percent of the people arriving in the New World were enslaved Africans and it is estimated that in all a total of 12 million enslaved Africans were transported.Īlthough by the late 18th century anti-slavery sentiments were widespread, slave labour continued to be used in the colonies. The majority of slaves transported to the New World were sold by Africans from central and western parts of Africa to European slave traders, who transported them to North and South America. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade, which spanned the 16th through the 19th century, was the largest long-distance forced movement of people in history. Dutch involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.The dossier concludes with links to a number of relevant web sites. Each title links directly to the corresponding record in the library’s online catalogue, which provides further bibliographic details and abstracts, loan information, and links to full text if available. It contains titles published in the past ten years, all of which are available in the ASC Library. To coincide with these commemorations and provide background information, the Library, Documentation and Information Department of the African Studies Centre Leiden has compiled the present web dossier on Dutch involvement in the slave trade. ![]() This ended a period of around 200 years of slavery in these colonies. To mark the 150th anniversary of Dutch abolition in 2013, various activities have been organized, including exhibitions in the National Library of the Netherlands, the History Museum of The Hague, and the University of Amsterdam. ![]() On 1 July 1863, slavery was abolished in the former Dutch colonies of Suriname and the Dutch Antilles. ![]()
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