Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte formally apologized for the Netherlands' role in the slave trade, but many activists said the speech did not go far enough.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte officially apologized for Netherlands' role in slavery on Monday. Photo: Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP via Getty Imageson Monday for the Netherlands' role in the slave trade, but many activists said the speech did not go far enough.The Netherlands played a key role in the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th to 19th centuries, with Dutch slave traders shipping an estimated 600,000 African men, women and children mostly to former colonies.
The prime minister said he was making the apology "posthumously to all enslaved people worldwide who have suffered from those actions, to their daughters and sons, and to all their descendants into the here and now," perMonday's apology was in response to a report published last year by a government-appointed advisory panel, whichconstituted "crimes against humanity.
Rutte told reporters on Monday that the government is not offering compensation to descendants of enslaved people, but it will establish a 200 million euro educational fund for programs that address the legacy of slavery in the Netherlands and its former colonies, AP reported. Prior to Rutte's speech on Monday, some campaigners had also called on the prime minister to wait to apologize until next year's anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands' former colonies, per AP. Some also wanted the apology to come from King Willem-Alexander.According to a study by Leiden University, between 1612 and 1872, the Dutch operated from "some 10 fortresses" along the Gold Coast , where slaves were shipped across the Atlantic.
The Dutch officially abolished slavery in its overseas territories in 1863, but it did not end for another decade in the former colony of Suriname because of a mandatory transition period there, per
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