Awareness of Dutch slavery gets extra funding

On the first of July, the Netherlands commemorate their history of slavery and celebrate its abolition. This year, the abolition will celebrate its 154th anniversary. Still, Dutch slavery remains unknown and relatively unspoken of.

This needs to be changed, according to the National Institute of Dutch History of Slavery and Heritage (NiNSee). Together with the Network of History of Slavery, which consists of the Museum of World Heritage, the Amsterdam Museum, the Bijlmerparktheater and the Vrije Universiteit, NiNSee is working on a national coordination point for history of slavery.

The national coordination point aims to unite the activities that the different partners organize and to help facilitate and coordinate them. In addition to this, the creation of one single coordination point is meant to make these activities more visible. This way, the partners hope to increase awareness about our shared history, both among institutions of culture and science and the general public.

That’s why the project is getting an extra 260.000 euros from Jet Bussemaker, minister of Education, Culture and Science. “The coordination point is an important step towards making our history of slavery more visible and discussible.” Bussemaker explains: “This way we can make slavery part of our shared history. In addition to this extra investment, I expect that the organizations that are involved will contribute to this.”

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