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Dutch West Indies 1630-1975 Part II: Pirates and Slaves

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TaalEngels
Auteur(s) / maker(s)Dutch Docu Channel
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This video is part of a series of three informative historical videos/ slideshows about the Dutch West Indies, which consist of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, Saba, and Suriname.

Dutch West Indies 1630-1975 Part II : Pirates & Slaves

Dutch trading posts and plantations in the Americas precede the much wider known colonisation activities of the Dutch in Asia. Whereas the first Dutch fort in Asia was built in 1600 (in present-day Indonesia), the first forts and settlements on the Essequibo river in Guyana and on the Amazon date from the 1590s. Actual colonization, with Dutch settling in the new lands, was not as common as with other European nations. Many of the Dutch settlements were lost or abandoned by the end of that century, but the Netherlands managed to retain possession of Suriname until it gained independence in 1975, as well as the former Netherlands Antilles, of which the islands remain within the Kingdom of the Netherlands today.

 

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  • Dutch West Indies 1630-1975 Part II - Youtube
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