Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people, are seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people, are seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people, are seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A machete used for cutting sugar cane is displayed at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A machete used for cutting sugar cane is displayed at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A box gifted to Stadholder William IV as the new governor of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) with decorations referring to the WIC’s trade in gold, ivory and people, is displayed at the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
Curator and head of the history department of the museum, Valika Smeulders is interviewed at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A branding iron with interwoven letters GWC, used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of its enslaved workers, is displayed at the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A ceremonial glass commissioned by plantation owners is seen at the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A ceremonial glass commissioned by plantation owners is seen at the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
The installation titled La Bouche du Roi, (The Mouth of the King), by Romuald Hazoume from the perspective of the millions of people deported from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas as commodities, is seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
A huge cast iron kettle used to process sugar cane is on display at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
Oopjen Coppit, right, in a full-length portrait painted in 1664 by Rembrandt van Rijn, is seen at the Slavery exhibition at The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Monday May 17, 2021. Coppit, was the widow of a man whose father owned Amsterdam’s largest sugar refinery, processing crops harvested by enslaved men and women in South America. She is the personification of the wealth generated for a privileged few by the vast numbers of enslaved workers, and part of a pair of paintings that also included a depiction of her first husband Marten, left.
A box gifted to Stadholder William IV as the new governor of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) with decorations referring to the WIC’s trade in gold, ivory and people, is displayed at the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery”, that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The delicacy of one of the first objects in new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron rod are the artistically interwoven letters GWC — used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of enslaved workers.
The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching exhibition titled, simply, “Slavery,” that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade.
Nearby, a huge wooden set of stocks and heavy iron chains and locks used to constrain enslaved people stands close to a small box, intricately decorated with gold, tortoiseshell and velvet celebrating some of the valuable commodities traded by the Dutch West India Company in the 18th century: Gold, ivory and human beings.
The exhibit, being opened Tuesday by King Willem-Alexander, tells the story of slavery by drilling down into the personal stories of 10 people, ranging from enslaved workers to a wealthy Amsterdam woman.
“We wanted to make the case, that this is a history that speaks to anybody in the Netherlands. It belongs to all of us, so that’s why we chose a personal approach,” Valika Smeulders, head of the museum’s history department, told The Associated Press.
The exhibition opens — belatedly and mainly online because of the COVID-19 pandemic — at a time when scrutiny of many nations’ brutal colonial history has been spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement that swept the world last year after the death of Black man George Floyd.
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