PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Batavian Revolution, Pieter Vreede, Wilhelmina Drucker
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Prof. alex van stipriaan & prof. hein klemann. Dutch golden age = hollendo-centric term: nothing golden to slave and colonised people at all: welfare may have been relatively higher than surrounding countries but the lives of peasants outside. Holland was hard and poverty was all over the place. When the dutch took side in american war independence (1770), with americans against the english. It stimulated english to declare war for the 4th war in history lasted for 4 years. Result of that war was disastrous of what was left of dutch power what was left in europe, beginning in faster economic decline - relative to other. New political culture of intense debates and/in large socially engaged organizations like the society for the. Public good / de maatschappij tot nut van het algemeen, founded in 1784. First wave of anti-slavery sentiments influenced by enlightenment c. 1770 - c. 1810: numerous novels, theatre plays, economic analyses, pamphlets etc. against the slave trade and slavery.
