A new exhibition illuminates the history of Dutch slavery
Once among the world’s leading slavers, the Dutch have long sought to play down this part of their colonial past
IN 1881 SOMEONE donated an antique brass circlet to the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum of art and history. The object (pictured) is a bit of a stumper. Engraved with a heraldic shield and the year 1689, it bears no indication of what purpose it served. The museum staff listed it as a dog collar.
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