The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
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In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
It’s important that this brutal chapter in South Africa’s past be commemorated in the right spirit, to reflect, take stock and to heal.
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Senior Professor (Emeritus) and Research Fellow, Department of History, University of the Free State
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Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, and lecturer in Art History, Williams College
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Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, College of Charleston