Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Why Did the Dutch Abolish Slavery So Late?" video.

@RealConstructor The Dutch were early with most things. They were the first with objection to slavery, but also the first to develop hypocrisy in foreign relations, acknowledging slavery was wrong but looking away from it being done overseas. It was not up to our standards of back then either. This hypocrisy has been copied by all Western governments up to our current time, it's what allows us to walk on Nikes, use Iphones and drive a Tesla while feeling good about ourselves. .
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That's not true actually. One of the more terrible things about slavery is that people were born into slavery. 'Enslaved' refers to a deed that changes a free person into a slave. So the slaveholder or the slavetrader is not necesseraly the enslaver. When we speak about the enslavers it's usually the Africans doing the enslavement, while the Europeans were slavetraders en slaveholders.
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@marcoskehl Because the condition is unnatural and different from the norm, we have the word slave, to make relevant distincitons. 'Enslaved' is fashionable word in a politically motivated language change. It's mostly used for showing off that you go with the time, that you conform to a certain ideology and political movement. But it lacks the power of distinction, it's not used to be more precise, on the contrary. Because if I am being precise and use words to their meaning, it is a distinction that doesn't fit that ideology it comes from.
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No. The Ducht East India Company wasn't in New Netherland, that was the WIC. East for East, W for West. They didn't free the slaves, they weren't slaves. The WIC started out as being very much opposed to slavery as was the Dutch government (which did turn a blind eye on the VOC in this respect) and it's main job was to wage war with the Spanish. So the slaves on captured Spanish ships were set free, but not brought back of course. So many ended up working in New Netherland for the WIC or in the Dutch Republic itself. It is known that Rembrandt had black neighbours in the Jodenbreestraat for example. With the transfer of New Amsterdam to the English, Stuyvesant made sure their status as free citizens, the WIC had given up on it's objection to slavery by then, was clear to the English, as well as the records of their ownership of land and their marital records.
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10 years before the Dutch abolished the slave trade.
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