Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Gert Oostindie -- Preface / Editor: Gert Oostindie -- Introduction / Gert Oostindie -- The Long Goodbye / Seymour Drescher -- The Dutch Case of Antislavery / Maarten Kuitenbrouwer -- Dutch Antislavery Attitudes in a Decline-Ridden Society, 1750-1815 / Angelie Sens -- An Economic Explanation of the Late Abolition of Slavery in Suriname / Edwin Horlings -- Suriname and the Abolition of Slavery / Alex van Stipriaan -- Same Old Song? / Gert Oostindie -- Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British, and the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Slavery and the Dutch in Southeast Asia / Gerrit J. Knaap -- The Ideology of Free Labor and Dutch Colonial Policy, 1830-1870 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Emancipations in Comparative Perspective / Stanley L. Engerman -- Epilogue / Seymour Drescher -- Back Matter -- Index / Editor: Gert Oostindie -- The Contributors / Editor: Gert Oostindie.

The Dutch slave trade, slavery and abolitionism have long remained unduly neglected issues in the burgeoning international debate on capitalism, modernity, and antislavery. Fifty Years Later now offers a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of antislavery in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonial world, and also provides a fresh contribution to the ongoing debate on the relationship between abolitionism and economic, political and cultural modernization in the Western world at large. The contributors to this volume are Seymour Drescher, Pieter C. Emmer, Stanley L. Engerman, Edwin Horlings, Gerrit J. Knaap, Maarten Kuitenbrouwer, Gert Oostindie, Robert Ross, Angelie Sens, and Alex van Stipriaan.

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