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Beeckestijn (ship)

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depicted above—the only known 18th-century print of a Dutch West India Company ship—was well known, but it was only with the fortuitous discovery of documents by historian Mark Ponte that the ship was linked to the slave trade.
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in the Caribbean between 1722 and 1736. Forty-six hundred enslaved Africans were transported, of whom at least 1,000 died during the journey; on some voyages the mortality rate was as high as a third.
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to provide slave traders, a partly privately owned ship is possible.) She made seven voyages transporting slaves from the African west coast to
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slave ship
Amsterdam
Prins Hendrikkade
Hendrik de Leth
Dutch West India Company
Elmina Castle
Suriname
St Eustatius

Amsterdam City Archives
Dutch Slave Coast
Beeckestijn
IJmuiden
VOC
Society of Surinam



"Ship drawing sheds new light on Amsterdam's role in slave trade"


"Eerste tekening van Hollands slavenschip bij toeval opgedoken in archief"
Rijksmusem on Slavery
merchant ship
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