Post-emancipation in the Dutch Carribean
The period following the introduction of the Emancipation Act in 1863 offered new opportunities and challenges for formerly enslaved people and their descendants. Much of their history survives orally: in sung stories, myths, folk tales, fairy tales, animal fables, anecdotes and ballads passed down from generation to generation. These unique stories are valuable sources for understanding their perspectives and experiences. These stories reveal the religious and migratory customs, along with the social, economic and political changes that took place in the Dutch Caribbean
Series of guest lectures
The guest lectures are open to all students and staff free of charge. The lectures will take place on Thursday 11, Monday 15 and Thursday 18 April from 15:30 to 17:30. The number of places is limited, so register quickly. The language of instruction is English. Students will not receive ECs for attending these lectures.
Lecture Radboud Reflects
Rose Mary Allen also gives a lecture for Radboud Reflects on the impact of slavery on the former Netherlands Antilles.
Rose Mary Allen is a professor at the University of Curacao. She studied cultural anthropology at Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (now Radboud University). For her dissertation Di ki manera? she documented the orally transmitted personal histories of Afro-Curaçaoans in the post-Emancipation period.