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Tuesday 29 November 2022
Lecture 'Boundless Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean' Dr.

Coen van Galen from Radboud University

ORANJESTAD - Recently, Aruba has made consider-
the University of Aruba, the able progress in digitizing
Comision Conscientisacion and making available his-
Sclavitud, and the Minis- torical documents.
try of Finance and Culture By connecting archives,
organized an informative it will be possible to gain
evening where Dr. Coen more insight into inter-is-
van Galen of Radboud land ties and connections
University Nijmegen gave between the islands and
a lecture titled "Boundless the Caribbean region.
Slavery and Freedom in the
Caribbean. It will benefit scholars and
anyone who wants to know
In a room filled with inter- more about ancestors from
ested people, Dr. Van Ga- other islands.
len explained the project
to link the archives of the This information is also es-
Caribbean islands to gath- sential for research on the
er more information about social structure after the
the migration of persons af- abolition of slavery. It allows
ter the abolition of slavery for better understanding of
in the Caribbean. the effect of slavery, and
colonialism on the genera-
Mr. Van Galen explained Dr. Van Galen explained tions after the abolition of
that archives and a trans- the setup of the interna- slavery, and until now.
national network exist be- tional archives project His-
tween Suriname and Cura- torical Database Suriname Minister Xiomara Maduro
cao. Currently, they are in and Curacao. Discussions thanks Dr. Van Galen for
the process of connecting are currently taking place the extensive lecture and
Aruba to this network as to include the National Ar- interest in connecting
well. chives of Aruba in that proj- Aruba to the international
ect. Especially now that network.q