This exhibition showcases items from Dutch and foreign museums, from archives and from private collections. And while you’re viewing the objects, paintings and archival documents, you’ll also hear oral sources, poems and music. The audio stories have been voiced by speakers who are connected, through their personal history, to one of the ten people featured in this exhibition.

The exhibition spans the Dutch colonial period from the 17th to the 19th century. It covers trans-Atlantic slavery in Suriname, Brazil and the Caribbean, and the part played in it by the Dutch West India Company (WIC), as well as Dutch colonial slavery in South Africa and Asia, where the Dutch East India Company (VOC) operated.

For further information at the Rijksmuseum website.