The 10 epochs of Dutch history

Tag: Slaves

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The emergence of the first urban societies

Post author By Webcare
Post date 11 April 2012

Urban societies - Epoch 01 - Time of hunters and farmers

Do you know what kind of profession you want to pursue later? If you had lived at the end of prehistoric times, you had no choice, you were a farmer or a craftsman.

Tags City-state, City-states, Farmers, Prehistory, Slaves, Trade, Ziggurat

Period 4 Time of cities and states

Rise of urban bourgeoisry and increasing independence of cities

Post author By Webcare
Post date 8 April 2012

Urban citizenry girl pigs - Time period 04 - Time of cities and states

Have you ever moved? Everyone is now free to live wherever they want. In history, you had to buy yourself free first if you wanted to live in the city.

Tags Citizenry, Craft, Farmers, Guilds, Middle ages, Serfs, Slaves

Period 7

Time of wigs and revolutions

Post author By Webcare
Post date 5 April 2012

Has anyone ever asked you if you wanted to get rich quickly? The Dutch of the 18th century wanted that. They were going to trade slaves.

Tags Abolitionism, Citizenship, Constitution, Democratic revolution, Enlightened absolutism, Enlightened thinking, Fundamental rights, Lighting, Plantation colony, Rationalism, Slaves, Social relations, The Golden Age, Trade, Transatlantic slave trade

Period 7 Time of wigs and revolutions

Slave labour on plantations and the rise of abolitionism

Post author By Webcare
Post date 5 April 2012

Slavery - Canon - Epoch 07 - Time of wigs and revolutions

Unfortunately, slave labour still exists. In the history of the Netherlands there was also a lot of slave trade. The Netherlands has made a lot of money from it.