Dutch commemorate slavery past


	Dutch commemorate slavery past

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                        Dutch commemorate slavery past for the first time ever                       </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/215808,dutch-commemorate-slavery-past-for-the-first-time-ever.html">slavery in the Netherlands 145 years ago. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people were expected to attend the ceremony in Amsterdam on Monday. <P></P>On Tuesday, several thousand were expected to attend the national commemoration ceremony where Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende were also due to be present. <P></P>It is the first formal commemoration of the Dutch slavery epoch, that lasted until 1864 during the royal Dutch empire. <P></P>At the time the Dutch empire included, among others, the colonies of Surinam and the Antilles. <P></P>Dutch colonists took some 600,000 Ghanaians into slavery in its colonies in the Antilles and Suriname. <P></P>The city of Amsterdam played a key role in the Netherlands' colonial past, including the slave trade. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/30039C72-1371-4B7E-A622-9D969E1D3C52/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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