From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade, which spanned the 16th through the 19th century, was the largest long-distance forced movement of people in history. Dutch involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.The dossier concludes with links to a number of relevant web sites. Each title links directly to the corresponding record in the library’s online catalogue, which provides further bibliographic details and abstracts, loan information, and links to full text if available. It contains titles published in the past ten years, all of which are available in the ASC Library. To coincide with these commemorations and provide background information, the Library, Documentation and Information Department of the African Studies Centre Leiden has compiled the present web dossier on Dutch involvement in the slave trade.

This ended a period of around 200 years of slavery in these colonies. To mark the 150th anniversary of Dutch abolition in 2013, various activities have been organized, including exhibitions in the National Library of the Netherlands, the History Museum of The Hague, and the University of Amsterdam. On 1 July 1863, slavery was abolished in the former Dutch colonies of Suriname and the Dutch Antilles.

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