The Currency of Freedom: Emancipation and Dutch Anti-Abolitionism in Atlantic Relief

Matthew J. Smith

doi:10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19545

The Currency of Freedom

Emancipation and Dutch Anti-Abolitionism in Atlantic Relief

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Matthew J. Smith University School of London

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https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19545

Abstract

These concluding remarks place the contributions to this special issue Repentance and Reappraisal: Historicising the Defenders of Slavery in the Netherlands in conversation with the history-writing on emancipation and anti-abolitionism in Atlantic studies. Along the way, this essay discusses some of the main themes in the literature and their parallels and departures with the findings and arguments presented by the contributors.

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Matthew J. Smith, University School of London

Matthew J. Smith is a writer, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London. His expertise is in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories of Haiti and Jamaica. E-mail: matthew.smith@ucl.ac.uk.

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2024-09-30

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Vol. 139 No. 3 (2024): Repentance and Reappraisal: Historicising the Defenders of Slavery in the Netherlands

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Smith, M. J. (2024). The Currency of Freedom: Emancipation and Dutch Anti-Abolitionism in Atlantic Relief. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 139(3), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19545