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

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Slavery historian: new Slavery Museum Amsterdam is missed opportunity. In recent years, emeritus professor Piet Emmer has regularly come under fire. Black Lives Matter sympathisers in particular point their arrows at him for allegedly trivialising the history of slavery. But fellow scientists are also critical. He thinks this is nonsense and presents facts, he believes.

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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.

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.

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