The Dutch slave trade, slavery and abolitionism have long remained unduly neglected issues in the burgeoning international debate on capitalism, modernity, and antislavery. Fifty Years Later now offers a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of antislavery in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonial world, and also provides a fresh contribution to the ongoing debate on the relationship between abolitionism and economic, political and cultural modernization in the Western world at large.
The contributors to this volume are Seymour Drescher, Pieter C. Emmer, Stanley L. Engerman, Edwin Horlings, Gerrit J. Knaap, Maarten Kuitenbrouwer, Gert Oostindie, Robert Ross, Angelie Sens, and Alex van Stipriaan.
Author(s): Gert Oostindie; Seymour Drescher
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Pittsburgh
Preface
Introduction: Explaining Dutch Abolition , Gert Oostindie
The Long Goodbye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective, Seymour Drescher
The Dutch Case of Antislavery: Late Abolitions and Élitist Abolitionism, Maarten Kuitenbrouwer
Dutch Antislavery Attitudes in a Decline-Ridden Society, 1750-1815, Angelie Sens
An Economic Explanation of the Late Abolition of Slavery in Suriname, Edwin Horlings
Suriname and the Abolition of Slavery, Alex van Stipriaan
Same Old Song? Perspectives on Slavery and Slaves in Suriname and Curaçao, Gert Oostindie
Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British, and the Cape Colony, Robert Ross
Slavery and the Dutch in Southeast Asia, Gerrit J. Knaap
The Ideology of Free Labor and Dutch Colonial Policy, 1830-1870, Pieter C. Emmer
Emancipations in Comparative Perspective: A Long and Wide View, Stanley L. Engerman
Epilogue: Reflections, Seymour Drescher
Index
The Contributors
