The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade

Ramona Negron is a PhD candidate at Leiden University, Data Curator at the Amsterdam City Archives, and Editor of Holland Historisch Tijdschrift. She is co-author of of the book De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt, which was published in 2022. In the Fall of 2024, she will commence a postdoctoral position at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV). Jessica den Oudsten is a PhD candidate at Radboud University, Guest Researcher at the Huygens Institute and Data Curator at the Amsterdam City Archives. Her research focuses on integration and social mobility of immigrants and their descendants in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1811. She specialises in early modern maritime history and migration history. She is co-author of the book De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt. Camilla de Koning is a PhD-student at the University of Manchester and Historic Royal Palaces. Her project 'Crown Engagement in Britain's Emerging Empire 1660-1775' analyses how the British Royal family, as individuals, was involved with the colonial empire. Asides from this she continues research on the Dutch Atlantic, focusing on kinship in/and slavery. Karwan Fatah-Black (b. 1981) is lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University and senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute of South-East Asia and Caribbean Studies. He is a scholar of Dutch colonial history specialized in the Atlantic world and slavery. He is a prolific author and participant in public debates on the future of the colonial past.