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A United Nations Exhibit Sheds Light On Dutch Colonial Slavery

February 23, 2023 by Alan J. Singer Leave a Comment

Foot stocks built to hold nine enslaved peopleThe exhibit “Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam” will be displayed in the lobby of the United Nations in New York City from February 27 through March 30, 2023.

The exhibition explores ten true personal stories centered on wooden foot stocks known as a “tronco” (Portuguese for tree trunk) that were used to constrain enslaved people by clamping their ankles. The foot stocks represent the more than one million people who forced to work in Dutch colonies on sugar plantations and in mines and harbors in Brazil, Suriname, the Caribbean, South Africa, and Asia. [Read more…] about A United Nations Exhibit Sheds Light On Dutch Colonial Slavery

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Black History, Dutch History, Manhattan, Netherlands, New Amsterdam, New Netherland, New York City, Slavery, Spanish Empire, spanish history, United Nations

Sol Bloom: A Manhattan Leader In American WWII Foreign Policy

January 19, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Sol BloomSol Bloom (March 9, 1870 – March 7, 1949) was a song-writer and Congressman from New York who began his career as a sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the House of Representatives from the West Side of Manhattan, from 1923 until his death in 1949.

Bloom was the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1939 to 1947 and again in 1949, an important period in the history of American foreign policy. [Read more…] about Sol Bloom: A Manhattan Leader In American WWII Foreign Policy

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Chicago, FDR, Foreign Policy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Manhattan, Marshall Plan, New York City, Political History, Truman Doctrine, United Nations, World War Two

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