Ramona Negrón, Jessica den Oudsten, De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam: Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt
Amsterdam’s largest slave traders | Walburg Press
(The largest slave traders in Amsterdam. About Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt)
The 1730s were a turning point in the history of slavery in the Netherlands: the Dutch West India Company lost its monopoly on the transatlantic slave trade, so several traders in the Republic decided to use their ships for the private slave trade. Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt are among them. In more than thirty years, they shipped between 11,000 and 13,000 enslaved people from West Africa to Suriname.
Based on the voyage of one of the first private slave ships, ‘t Gezegende Suikerriet (1743-1745), Ramona Negrón and Jessica den Oudsten tell the hitherto unknown story of the enslaved people and crew members on board, the plantation owners involved in Suriname and the working methods of Amsterdam’s largest slave traders.
Matthias Lukkes writes a review of the book in the August 2024 issue of the IJMH. Read it at this link (subscription needed):
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