Skip to content

Piet Emmer Quotes

born 1944 Netherlands

Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Emmer (Haarlem, 17 October 1944) is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of Colonial History at Leiden University, specializing in European Expansion and related slavery and immigration.

Netherlands
Academics
Historians

Random Piet Emmer quote

5 quotes

I think it is important that when water boils at 100 degrees, whether someone is white or black, that someone sees that it boils at 100 degrees.

You also have to realise that they would not have been free either if they had stayed in Africa. They had already been enslaved.

A give-and-take situation was created between the two sides so that that slavery could continue to exist.

The problem is that, in our view, the system (Slavery) is so reprehensible that you really shouldn't talk about it. I think you should.

That it was precisely productive forces that left is not at all unique. It happens in all migrations. If you look at the period between 1500 and 1900, when that Atlantic slave trade took place, many more people left Europe exactly in the same age range, without us in Europe complaining about losing productive forces.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Piet Emmer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.