The Dutch king is widely expected to apologize for the Netherlands imperial slave trade when it commemorates the 160th anniversary of the country’s abolition of slavery. An apology would pile pressure on the British and Belgian royals to do the same.
Left, protests against the Dutch tradition of Zwarte Piet in Meppelber in 2015. William of Orange received the modern equivalent of millions of dollars from the slave trade, a new report has found.Is late truly better than never?
The Netherlands’ reckoning with its past comes as some in Europe grapple with the realities of their brutal colonial and slave-holding history. An apology, which is widely expected, would pile pressure on the royal families of Britain, Belgium and other former slave-trading European nations to do the same.
The study also describes how the king’s predecessors made the equivalent of almost $600 million from the slave trade, having invested nothing “I was shocked because you would assume that [it is] basic in general knowledge, but it’s not,” she told NBC News by telephone. Plantation owners busied themselves with reading, writing, sports and other leisure pursuits as workers toiled in the hot sun while facing physical and sexual abuse.
In response to questions from NBC News, Pauline van Voorst, a spokesperson for the Dutch government, echoed Rutte's apology in admitting the country had too late in acting on the legacy of slavery.
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