Exhibition 'Afterlives of Slavery' in Zeeuws Museum
It is more than 160 years since slavery was abolished in the Dutch colonies, but the racial inequalities built up over centuries have not disappeared on their own. While the relationship between slavery’s past and the present is unclear to many white Dutch people, for most Black Dutch people the links between slavery and contemporary inequality, racism and discrimination are painfully apparent. In this exhibition, we ask the following questions: what is our shared history of slavery? How do we deal with it today and how can we create a shared future? We pose these questions through objects, artworks and interviews with scholars and other experts.
The Zeeuws Museum has taken 'Afterlives of Slavery' over from the Wereldmuseum. We are using this exhibition to investigate, together with experts and the public, how stories about Zeeland’s role in slavery and colonialism can be added to future versions of the exhibition 'This is Zeeland'.
