Genealogy & Genetic History Of The Dutch Caribbean

Other than in the English, French and Spanish colonies that imposed their languages on the colonized, the Dutch however never imposed their language on the colonized, either from indifferenc or from a Mercaht/economical standpoint. In fact, the colonizer took over in the colony the language of the colonized. It woud last untill the 20th century that Dutch was compsulsively imposed by the Dutch colonizer. But then Papiamento had been anchored in the entire society for two centuries, that it was no longer to think it away. Instead of Papiamento, Dutch in the last century became more and more a language threatened in the colony which had more and more land price in almost all language domains. In contrast to the indifference of the colonial administration saw the mission from the outset the need to use Papiamento to reach the convert. Consecutively, for example, the Jesuits (1704 - 1742), the Franciscans (1776 - 1820) and the Paters Dominicans from 1870 were missionaries. But it turns ...

The asymmetry of laws concerning the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of slaves in the Atlantic world in the early-to-mid nineteenth century led to a range of responses on the part of inhabitants of the Dutch Leeward islands of Saba, St. Eustatius, and St. Martin. These ranged from activism, adaptation, accommodation to, as this article highlights, maritime marronage on the part of the enslaved population of these islands. The Dutch Leeward islands have been understudied in the historiography of abolition and emancipation but, as this article will argue, they should be included into the larger story of how abolition was experienced on the local, regional, Atlantic, and international stages. By all accounts, the night of the 27th of April 1844 was dark and cloudy in St. Eustatius (also known as Statia), the tiny Dutch Leeward island. 1 1. The islands are known as the ‘Windwards' ( Bovenwindse eilanden ) in Dutch. For consistency's sake, they will be referred to as th...