Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

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• Marjoleine Kars (MIT)
• Thursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-19:00
• History Faculty Room 11.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Joris van den Tol.

Accara and Gousarie were two African leaders in the 1763 Berbice slave rebellion, they next served as slave hunters, army drummers in the Dutch Republic, and Maroon fighters in Suriname. How do we write the biographies of people forced to shape-shift across boundaries and allegiances and whose presence in the archives is equally slippery?

This talk is part of the Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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