Lives in slavery: Exploring the slave registers of Suriname and Curacao, 1830-1863
Published: 23 February 2023
Symposium on Thursday 16 March 2023
Thursday 16 March 2023
09:30 to Location
Organiser(s): Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge & Coen van Galen, Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History
The research group Historical Database of Suriname and Curacao (HDSC) published the first releases of the Surinamese and the Curacao slave registers, in which the individual enslaved persons are linked between different series and owners. To celebrate this milestone, they are organising a one-day research symposium to explore the research possibilities of these newly released datasets. The aims of the symposium are to intensify the research on lives of enslaved individuals from a cultural, social, legal, and demographic history perspective and to facilitate partnerships and future comparative work on the history of slavery in tropical societies in the decades before emancipation in 1863.
First published: 23 February 2023