National commemoration Dutch Slavery past

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The Black Dutch lady Simone Weimans (Rotterdam, 23 november 1971) in the blue colbert on the right is the national anchor lady of the National Public 20:00 hours news in the evening.


Weimans is a national face and in my opinion a positive example of a succesful Afro European, Afro Dutch, she was born in Rotterdam and therefor a native Dutch woman in my opinion. She speaks Standard Dutch. My old father likes her, because she speaks clearly.

[pieter]

The atmosphere of this commemoration reminds me of the Remembrance of the Dead (Dutch: Dodenherdenking) which is held annually on May 4 in the Netherlands.
And it reminds me of the rememberence ceremony and meeting each year on 25 February at the De Dokwerker memorial at the Jonas Daniël Meijersquare in Amstedam.
It also reminds me of the annual Auschwitz Herdenking (commemoration) in the Wertheimpark in Amsterdam on the last sunday of Januari.

It is good that the Slavery past and the slave trade, of which Dutch slav straders were part of, are commemorated in the Netherlands.

That this black page in the Netherlands is recognized.

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Debate in the Dutch National parliament about institutional racism

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Culture clash between 2 worlds

[Jaga]

Pieter, so is this Dutch Slavery Day celebrated every year? We don't have really anything like that in the US. Maybe we should... but in the current hot atmosphere it is probably better keep certain things quiet.

[pieter]

Jul 1, 2020 21:12:03 GMT -7 Jaga said:

Pieter, so is this Dutch Slavery Day celebrated every year? We don't have really anything like that in the US. Maybe we should... but in the current hot atmosphere it is probably better keep certain things quiet.

Dear Jaga,

Not celebrated but commemorated and mourned. Especially by the Afro Dutch communities of Surinamese, Dutch Antilian and African Dutch (Ghanese Dutch, Senegalese Dutch, Cameroon Dutch, Nigerian Dutch and etc.) people, but also by growing numbers of Native Dutch people. Yes, the slavery, slave trade and abuse of Black people in that dark period of our history is commemorated every year during the commemoration of the abolishment of Dutch Slavery in 1863. In 1800 American citizens were banned from investment and employment in the international slave trade in an additional Slave Trade Act. The abolition of transatlantic slave trade took effect in Denmark-Norway on January 1, 1803.

Abolition of the Slave Trade Act abolished slave trading in the British Empire in 1807. Captains fined £120 per slave transported. Patrols sent to the African coast to arrest slaving vessels. The West Africa Squadron (Royal Navy) is established to suppress slave trading; by 1865, nearly 150,000 people freed by anti-slavery operations. In 1807 Slave trading was made a felony punishable by transportation for both British subjects and foreigners on the territory and territorial waters of the British Empire. In the Dutch Empire Slave trade was abolished in 1814.

In 1862 Slavery was abolished in the Dutch colonies, emancipating 33,000 slaves in Surinam, 12,000 in the Dutch Antilles, and an indeterminate number in Indonesia (back then the Dutch East Indies). The Dutch were very late to do so. But after the abolishment of slavery the slavery continued in Surinam and in the Dutch Antilles under the disguised name of Convict leasing or property loss acts. Slaves had to continue to work under slave conditions with extremely low wages, because the white plantation owners lost money and possessions (the slaves themselves as workforce) after the abolishment of slavery in the Dutch Empire (Kingdom).

In 1869 the Portuguese king Louis I abolished slavery in all Portuguese territories and colonies. In 1870 amidst great opposition from the Cuban and Puerto Rican planters, Segismundo Moret drafts a "Law of Free Wombs" that frees children of slaves, slaves older than 65 years, and slaves serving in the Spanish Army, beginning in 1872. In Puerto Rico slavery was abolished in 1873.

In Cuba Slavery was abolished in 1886.

In Brazil the Golden Law decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect, without indemnities to slave owners was implemented in 1888. The financial aid to the freedmen planned by the monarchy never took place due to the 15 November 1889 military coup that established a Republic in the country.

The Brussels Conference Act – was a collection of anti-slavery measures in 1890 to put an end to the slave trade on land and sea, especially in the Congo Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the East African coast.

In Italian Somaliland in Eastern Africa the First slaves were freed in 1895. In Madagascar and Zanzibar slavery was abolished in 1896.

In Guam an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean, Slavery was abolished on February 22, 1900, by proclamation of Richard P. Leary, an admiral in the United States Navy who served from the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War.

Although slavery is now abolished de jure in all countries, de facto practices akin to it continue today in many places throughout the world.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/timeline-dutch-history/1863-abolition-of-slavery

Cheers,
Pieter

[pieter]

Rob Jetten, party leader of the social-liberal D66 party:

"Today, on Keti Koti, we commemorate one of the darkest pages in our history. On July 1, 1863, the Netherlands as one of the last countries finally abolished slavery.
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Last summer I was on the island of St. Eustatius. There, at Fort Oranje, I heard a story that touched me. A story that I would like to share with you. A horrifying moment in St. Eustatius, but the reason for The Hague to accelerate the debate on the abolition of slavery. In 1863 (actually I must say: pás in 1863) slavery was abolished. Only 10 years later, in 1873, it finally came to an end.
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We must continue to have the conversation about slavery and how it affects contemporary racism and discrimination. D66 and GroenLinks therefore propose that 2023, 150 years after the final end of slavery, be a special commemorative year.
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With exhibitions, debates and conversations at school. That conversation may not always be easy, but it is very much needed. To do justice to the suffering of slavery, but also to eliminate racism and discrimination that people still face every day. "

[pieter]

Listen to the song from 58:35 on:

She great her ancestors, she greets the ancestors of the Afro Dutch people. She pays respect to her ancestors who were slaves. She sents them love.

[pieter]

Maybe also a little bit a celebration of the abolishment of the Slavery in the Dutch colonies in 1863 Jaga.

The Afro Dutch celebrate Keti Koti


On July 1, 1863, the Kingdom of the Netherlands abolished slavery in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles with the Emancipation Act.

More than 45,000 originally African slaves were released, of which 34,441 slaves in Suriname. The slave owners were compensated for each slave with 300 guilders, but the liberated people received nothing themselves and were obliged to continue to work on a contract basis in Suriname for another ten years.
In Suriname this day is officially called Day of Freedom, but the holiday is also known colloquially as Chain Cutting. It is a celebration for all residents and not only for the descendants of the slaves.

Part of the festivities is Bigi Spikri ('Big Mirror'), a colorful parade in festive and often traditional clothing, in which the women often carry small white umbrellas.
info: Wikipedia

[pieter]

KETI KOTI: That is how slavery was commemorated in Amsterdam (2019)



Today is Keti Koti, commemorating the abolition of slavery. For some, the commemoration in Amsterdam is very important because too little would have been achieved regarding the disadvantage of black people in the Netherlands.

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