A razor-sharp book about decades of debate about the Dutch history of slavery

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While searching for traces of the colonial past in the present, I spoke to historian Patricia Gomes. In her most recent book, she describes how we in the Netherlands deal with our transatlantic colonial legacy. Thinking about transatlantic slavery and racism guides readers through decades of public debate about racism and the Dutch history of slavery in a razor-sharp manner. Although the book is not an autobiography, it reads like an associative…