That’s it for today. I finished the inventory numbers I still had to take a look at.
The notarial archives remain central to my research, uncovering society’s many layers and vividly bringing to life, in this case, the early-19th-century Dutch and British Guianas.
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Ik houd het in de gaten 😉
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Last will of the free indigenous woman Johanna Hoop (1814, Berbice).
Her 4 children inherit her estate: half to Philip, Jan and Kitty Watson, and half to her eldest, Christiaan Alexander Hoop.
Below, she notes that since the Watsons had already inherited Christiaan’s larger share restored equity
29.07.2025 11:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rental contract between the free Black woman Zephire and Klaas Francken (1814, Berbice).
Zephire rents part a plot of land to Klaas Francken for 88 guilders a month. He will pay her every six months.
Below we see that Zephire could not sign her name.
29.07.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Estate inventory of minor Catharina Federica Megnin (1814, Berbice). She is 16 years old.
Her belongings were previously administered by the aforementioned late Daniel Leen.
We find a branding iron with Megnin's initials: CFM.
29.07.2025 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Last will of Otto Willem Lantsheer (1814, Berbice) (written by himself!).
He bequeaths the enslaved woman Variety and her children Gom and Maria to the free "mulatto" woman Polly Wann.
Gom is apprenticed at 7 to learn a craft so he can buy his freedom when he turns 18, and later free Maria too.
29.07.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dat vermoed ik ook...
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Last will of Christoffel Mittelholzer (1814, Berbice). He wished to manumit the enslaved "mulatto" boy Willem.
Willem then had to be sent to Europe for his education, specifically to learn a craft.
Mittelholzer also manumitted Willem's mother Rosina and her other child Baron, who stayed behind.
29.07.2025 09:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Estate inventory of Daniel Leen, widower of Alida Calmeyer (1814, Berbice). Among the silverware we find a branding iron with the letters LEEN.
I still flinch painfully every time I see a branding iron in the archives’ records. Enslavers usually used initials, but Daniel branded his full surname.
29.07.2025 09:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As I go through the notarial archives of Berbice, Essequibo and Demerara, I will share some of my findings here below 👇
29.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Estate inventory of Christina Klonck (1814, Berbice). Among the enslaved we find two girls, Christina and Anna, described as twins👶👶
Upon her death in 1814, Klonck owned three plantations, dozens of plots of land and hundreds of enslaved people.
Klonck manumitted 8 of them through her last will.
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CfP is out! Sign up, share, come visit, very excited about this. Let's get some great female case-studies!
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Postdoctoral researcher in the field of Food Studies
Postdoctoral researcher in the field of Food Studies
* vacancy * Postdoctoral researcher in the field of Food Studies at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 👇
vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-P...
22.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call for applications | KITLV visiting fellowships 2026
Apply before 15 September to become a visiting fellow at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 👇
www.kitlv.nl/news/call-fo...
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Vanuit verschillende hoeken is aan de bel getrokken over het nieuwe zoeksysteem van het Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Het verslag van het gesprek vanuit het KNHG met het archief staat nu online en biedt een goede update van de stand van zaken en gemaakte afspraken: knhg.nl/2025/07/09/n...
10.07.2025 08:47 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Natuurlijk ook op papier 🗞️
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Aflevering 2 van Gouden Tijden, Slechte Tijden: Over de hoveniers van Huydecoper.
Lees ‘m hier: onsamsterdam.nl/artikelen/ee...
07.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Zo vereerd en dankbaar voor deze Spinozapremie. Die is ook een welkome erkenning van het belang van ons bloeiende vakgebied, en de geesteswetenschappen in den brede.
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Wat mooi. Gefeliciteerd!
27.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, I will email it to you!
10.06.2025 10:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣 * NEWS *
I’m pleased to share that I’ve joined the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) as Editorial Assistant 📚 I’m excited to support the journal alongside my postdoctoral research and to contribute to its important work in Caribbean studies.
Interested in publishing your work with us? 💪 See:
06.06.2025 11:27 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Leuk, dankjewel voor het delen, Henk! 😊
04.06.2025 22:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Natuurlijk ook te lezen in het fysieke nummer van @onsamsterdam.bsky.social 👇
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De informele lijntjes van de macht
De eigenwijze burgemeester Joan Huydecoper hield bijna zestig jaar lang een dagboek bij over zijn zaken, zijn openbare en privéleven. Ze geven een…
*Nieuwe column* in @onsamsterdam.bsky.social met @jessicadenoudsten.bsky.social & Tessa de Boer. Iedere maand een nieuwe aflevering van Gouden Tijden, Slechte Tijden, waar we de lezer meenemen in het dagelijks leven van burgemeester Joan Huydecoper.
Deze maand: de informele lijntjes van de macht.
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* Boekpresentatie *
Op 4 juni a.s. presenteren wij het boek Dordrecht, slavernij en autonomie van 1572 tot nu.
Wil je erbij zijn? Meld je dan hier aan:
www.eventbrite.com/e/boekpresen...
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Well, I always use "Spanish" Empire to avoid confusion with the Austrian Habsburgs.
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Historian; Author of Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (coming soon); Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (2021); and more
Historian of the early modern world @Birkbeck. Associate Editor @FrenchHistory Also pottery.
Promoting women in economic and social history. Chair: Alka Raman
Hier zwijg ik niet, maar vertel ik over de #geschiedenis van Nederland, het Huis Oranje-Nassau en interessante historische feiten. En soms een beetje #kunst
Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: enjoying summer break ☀️😌
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A poem a day keeps the 🍎 away
DADA inspired poems
Dr. | Historian | Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic: The Courts of Landgrave Wilhelm IX and Stadholder Willem V in Comparison (c. 1770-1806) | Holy Roman Empire & Dutch Republic | https://independent.academia.edu/QuintenSomsen
Economic Historian. Max Weber Fellow EUI 2024-2026. Financial History, Trade and Institutions, Monetary History, Early Modern period, especially in relation to the Spanish Empire and Asia.
PhD Candidate Medieval Urban History (UAntwerp) || Editor@Madoc
Urban history, social history, Late Medieval Cities, internal divisions, health care and children
Medieval Amsterdam, Maastricht & Bruges
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/bente-marschall/
An NWO funded research project on how islanders in the (Dutch) Caribbean experience climate challenges through perspectives rooted in the humanities and social sciences.
Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. For everyone with an interest in this fascinating period in history. See also EMLCjournal.bsky.social and https://achttiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/
AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern British Atlantic World
Faperj Postdoctoral fellow at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) #MundosdoTrabalho #EarlyModernHistory #CaribbeanHistory #HumanidadesDigitais. 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽 www.gentedemar.org
Huis van Bibliotheek Gouda, Drukkerswerkplaats, Kruim eten&drinken, Mirakel Musicaltheater, Streekarchief Midden-Holland, Taalhuis, Techniekwerkplaats en VRSpace.
www.chocoladefabriekgouda.nl
Historian | Early Modern History | Migration History | Editor at Holland Historisch Tijdschrift
Caribbean, Atlantic World, and British Empire historian. Formerly part of the In the Same Sea project at the University of Copenhagen. Back in the U.S. now (reluctantly).
PhD candidate Dutch disposition towards animals and plants (1550-2000) | Computational Humanities, Cultural History, AI, Historical Literature
