Global Citizenship - slavery

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The Netherlands' history of slavery

What is 'slavery'?

Slavery

• Slavery existed in the times of the Romans
  
  
• Slavery existed in the Arabian world and Western Africa
  
  
• Europeans bought slaves for plantation farming

Which Dutch 'compagnie' was involved in the African slave trade?

Find an illusrtration of slaves being 'dehumanised'

Triangular trade

Do you think everybody supported slavery in the 17th century?

Slavery

• Some Christians didn't support slavery
  
  
• Some ideas from the Enlightenment didn't support slavery
  
  
• Abolitionism: the movement to end slavery

When was slave labour finally banned?

Should the Dutch government apologize for the Netherlands' history of slavery?

What was the 'African slave trade' and why did it end?