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Schaft was executed by Dutch Nazi officials on 17 April 1945. [5] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten ('Dutch resistance') to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Overveen, near Bloemendaal. [5]
She resettled former slaves on new land and allowed women in her war camp to bear children, which had been banned under the wartime Imbangala customs. [1] She also reformed the legal code of her kingdom and established contact with Christian rulers in Europe, hoping to certify Matamba's status as an internationally recognized Christian kingdom ...
The Coymans asiento became an important factor in the Dutch slave trade. Balthasar Coymans (1652–1686) led a branch of the Dutch trade house Coymans in Cádiz. He started a smear campaign against Venetian Nicolas Porcio who was at the time owner of the asiento. Coymans smear campaign was successful, and in 1685, he obtained the monopoly to ...
Frederick Coyett, the governor of Taiwan for the Dutch East India Company, was stationed in Fort Zeelandia with 1,733 people: 905 soldiers and officers, 547 slaves, 218 women and children, and 63 married men, [15] while his subordinate, Valentyn, was in charge of Fort Provintia and its garrison of 140 soldiers.
Meermin was a 480-ton square rigged ship of the Dutch hoeker-type, with three masts, which was built in 1759 in the Dutch port of Amsterdam for the VOC's African trade. [ 3 ] [ nb 2 ] From December 1765 she was working the coastline of Madagascar , under Captain Gerrit Muller and a crew of 56, taking Malagasy men, women and children to be ...
Angry protesters in Cape Town confronted the king and queen of the Netherlands on Friday as they visited a museum that traces part of their country’s 150-year involvement in slavery in South Africa.
In February 1706 another revolt was organised by the remaining maroons as well as disgruntled slaves. When the Dutch abandoned Dutch Mauritius in 1710 the maroons stayed behind. [citation needed] When representatives of the French East India Company landed on the island in 1715 they also had to face attacks by the Mauritian maroons. Significant ...
The Dutch colonized the southwestern part of South Africa in 1652 through the Dutch East India trading company. They controlled the Dutch Cape Colony for more than 150 years before British occupation.