ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN – New historical research has uncovered a direct link between the Dutch municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn and the Surinamese plantation past. Legal expert Rebecca Tam and historian Guus de Boer discovered that former Alphen mayor Johannes Jacobus Ooijkaas, who served as mayor from 1825 to 1836, had interests in Surinamese slavery. The revelations coincided with the current exhibition ‘From Fort Buku to the Limes’, which mak…
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ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN – New historical research has uncovered a direct link between the Dutch municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn and the Surinamese plantation past. Legal expert Rebecca Tam and historian Guus de Boer discovered that former Alphen mayor Johannes Jacobus Ooijkaas, who served as mayor from 1825 to 1836, had interests in Surinamese slavery. The revelations coincided with the current exhibition ‘From Fort Buku to the Limes’, which mak…