A crowd funded project will digitize and index the slave registers of Suriname, making them freely accessible online. Slave registers of Suriname The slave registers of Suriname are a unique record series. They record the names of approximately 80,000 people who were enslaved in Suriname between 1830 and the abolition of slavery in 1863. I don't think there is another country in the world that had such a comprehensive registration of its enslaved … [Read more...]
“Negroes for New Netherland”
18 July 2014 by 8 Comments
While searching the notarial archives at the Amsterdam City Archives, I came across a record that tells how Dutch merchants took African slaves from Guinea and shipped them to the New World, trading some in the West Indies and taking the rest to New Netherland. As it is rare to find accounts of voyages of slave vessels, I thought I would share this document with you. Translated abstract 14 December 1661 Willem Tijssen of Schermerhorn, age 28, Paul Simonssen of Purmerend, 25, Gerret … [Read more...]
