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Colonial History

The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal

Colonial Trade

Diorama of the Zeezigt Coffee and Cotton Plantation

Plantations in the Colonies

Legcuff

Colonial Slavery

De beschieting van de Kraton van de Sultan van Djambi door de gouvernementsmarineschepen 'Celebes', 'Admiraal van Kinsbergen' en 'Onrust' op 8 september 1858

Violence in the Colonies

Chinese contractarbeiders sorteren tabaksbladeren in een fermenteerschuur, Sumatra

Forced and Indentured Labour

De haveningang van Willemstad met het Gouvernementspaleis

Travelling Artists in the Colonies

Militia Company of District VIII in Amsterdam under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker

Black People in the Netherlands

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