Nederlandse vrouwen lieten hun afkeer van slavernij blijken met subtiel handwerk: Ons koloniale verleden nr. 36

Susan Legêne

doi:https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/2022/ons-koloniale-verleden/borduurwerk~v546119/

Nederlandse vrouwen lieten hun afkeer van slavernij blijken met subtiel handwerk: Ons koloniale verleden nr. 36

Translated title of the contribution: Dutch women expressed their aversion to slavery through delicate embroidery: Our colonial past 36

Susan Legêne

School of Humanities

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Abstract

This article links a collection piece in the Rijksmuseum (collection nbr NG-1991-22) to enlightenment discussions about Freedom and Slavery, starting from the presence of Rousseau in the embroidered tableau. It is part of a series of 50 articles about objects with a link to the colonial past of the Netherlands. The emroidery is linked to Gellerts story of Inkle and Yariko (1781), to a diorama of Rouseeau, Voltaire and Franklin with a black and a white child in the Musée de la Révolution Française (c. 1790), and to a revolutionary drawing by Jacobus Buys (1787) on freedom of press published in the Dutch Batavian Revolt years.

Translated title of the contribution	Dutch women expressed their aversion to slavery through delicate embroidery: Our colonial past 36
Original language	Dutch
Journal	De Volkskrant
DOIs	https://doi.org/https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/2022/ons-koloniale-verleden/borduurwerk~v546119/
Publication status	Published - 14 Mar 2023

Bibliographical note

The author is part of the advisory team that designed the De Volkskrant canon of 50 objects, called 'Ons koloniale verleden' ('Our colonial past').

Keywords

Freedom
Slavery
Rousseau
Gender
Revolution
Agency

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Epilogue: Histories of Imagination and the Making of Cultural Archives
Legêne, S., 2025, Slavery in the Cultural Imagination: Debates, Silences and Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space. Paijmans, M. & Fatah-Black, K. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 347-361 (Slavery and Emancipation).
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Hoe de strijd voor vrouwenrechten en tegen slavernij met elkaar verweven zijn
Translated title of the contribution: The entanglement of the movement for womens rights and anti slavery Legêne, S., 2023, Ons koloniale verleden in 50 voorwerpen. Smeulders, V., Modest, W., Sitalsing, S., van Zeil, W. & Gualtherie van Weezel, T. (eds.). Amsterdam: Alfabet Uitgevers, p. 218-223 6 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Popular
Anti-slavery discourse and early 19th century transnational views on states, nations and citizens
Legêne, S., 17 Jun 2019.
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic

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Nederlandse vrouwen lieten hun afkeer van slavernij blijken met subtiel handwerk: Ons koloniale verleden nr. 36

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Epilogue: Histories of Imagination and the Making of Cultural Archives

Hoe de strijd voor vrouwenrechten en tegen slavernij met elkaar verweven zijn

Anti-slavery discourse and early 19th century transnational views on states, nations and citizens

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