EUGENE GODFRIED DIALOGUE ABOLITION SLAVERY DUTCH CARIBBEAN
Dutch slaveholders government was forced to accept abolition of slavery in Saint Martin and Saint Eustatius in 1848. Yet, the dominant elite sought all ways and means to ensure the payment of indemnization to them before slavery was finally abolished in Aruba, Curazao, Bonaire and Suriname as late as july 1st of 1863. The struggle continues.
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Added: July 1, 2007
EUGENE GODFRIED DIALOGUE ABOLITION SLAVERY DUTCH CARIBBEAN
Dutch slaveholders government was forced to accept abolition of slavery in Saint Martin and Saint Eustatius in 1848. Yet, the dominant elite sought all ways and means to ensure the payment of indemnization to them before slavery was finally abolished in Aruba, Curazao, Bonaire and Suriname as late as july 1st of 1863. The struggle continues.
EUGENE GODFRIED DIALOGUE ON THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN
Persistent demands of the peoples of the Caribbean islands Saint Martin and Saint Eustatius forced the Dutch slaveholders government to … all » recognize abolition of slavery in 1848 in those islands. Yet, until 1863 the Dutch finally abolished slavery in Curazao, Aruba, Bonaire and Surinam. Naturally, the ruling elite sought all means to ensure the payment of indemnization to the slaveholders class on the one hand and on the other hand all conditions were created to impose the continuation of dutch political, economic and cultural domination after slavery was abolished. The struggle for liberation continues. «
Tony Lupo posted a photo:
In the distance.
