In the 1850s and 1860s, Dutch immigrants in America struggled to square their racial views with the politics of slavery in their new country. The historiography of the Dutch world would benefit from incorporating this story, because it is often in moments of conflict when the most explicit expressions of ideology present themselves. The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses. Building on Liernur’s story, this article also challenges the standard view that Dutch Americans were natural opponents of slavery. Instead, they held diverse and amb...
In the Dutch Republic slavery was not permitted on its soil in Western Europe. Enslaved people obtai...
This article presents a new perspective on the master-slave relationship in New Netherland in order ...
After years of watching colleagues fly to Paris, Johannesburg, Beijing, or Bogota for research trips...
In the 1850s and 1860s, Dutch immigrants in America struggled to square their racial views with the ...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of a worldwide economic...
Abstract: One of the puzzling questions about the formal Dutch abolition of the slave-trade in 1814 ...
In the preface to his neoclassical tragedy Monzongo, of de koningklyke slaaf (1774), Nicolaas Simon ...
Slavery is (Not) Our History: On the Public Debate and Divergent Meanings of the NTR Television Seri...
In the preface to his neoclassical tragedy Monzongo, of de koningklyke slaaf (1774), Nicolaas Simon ...
This article attempts to add to our understanding of the relations between the Netherlands and its c...
Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the ...
Angelie SENS, The Batavian Revolution and Slavery : the (Im)Possibilities of Abolition of the Slave ...
What happens to Dutch ethnic identity after several generations in America? William Vandever (1817-1...
This article expands on research that explores similar tendencies in the literatures of three former...
One of the puzzling questions about the formal Dutch abolition of the slave-trade in 1814 is why a s...
In the Dutch Republic slavery was not permitted on its soil in Western Europe. Enslaved people obtai...
This article presents a new perspective on the master-slave relationship in New Netherland in order ...
After years of watching colleagues fly to Paris, Johannesburg, Beijing, or Bogota for research trips...
In the 1850s and 1860s, Dutch immigrants in America struggled to square their racial views with the ...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of a worldwide economic...
Abstract: One of the puzzling questions about the formal Dutch abolition of the slave-trade in 1814 ...
In the preface to his neoclassical tragedy Monzongo, of de koningklyke slaaf (1774), Nicolaas Simon ...
Slavery is (Not) Our History: On the Public Debate and Divergent Meanings of the NTR Television Seri...
In the preface to his neoclassical tragedy Monzongo, of de koningklyke slaaf (1774), Nicolaas Simon ...
This article attempts to add to our understanding of the relations between the Netherlands and its c...
Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the ...
Angelie SENS, The Batavian Revolution and Slavery : the (Im)Possibilities of Abolition of the Slave ...
What happens to Dutch ethnic identity after several generations in America? William Vandever (1817-1...
This article expands on research that explores similar tendencies in the literatures of three former...
One of the puzzling questions about the formal Dutch abolition of the slave-trade in 1814 is why a s...
In the Dutch Republic slavery was not permitted on its soil in Western Europe. Enslaved people obtai...
This article presents a new perspective on the master-slave relationship in New Netherland in order ...
After years of watching colleagues fly to Paris, Johannesburg, Beijing, or Bogota for research trips...