THE LEGACY OF DUTCH COLONIALISM AND THE IMPACT OF THE HOLOCAUST

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

BY: CD LEFEBVRE, GLORIA SAFDIEH, EMILY SHREM, NORM SUTTON, DANIELLE ZALTA

DUTCH COLONIAL HISTORY TIME LINE: • 1581-ACT OF ABJURATION WASN’T RECOGIZED TILL 1648 BY SPAIN• 1602- DUTCH EAST INDIES CO. CHARTERD (VOC)

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• 1619-A "DUTCH MAN-OF-WAR“ SHIP BRINGS FIRST SHIPMENT OF SLAVES TO JAMES TOWN• 1621- DUTCH WEST INDIES CO. CHARTERED (WIC) BOUGHT, SOLD AND TRANSPORTED OVER

550,000 PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY• 1626- PETER MIUIT ARRIVES IN NEW AMSTERDAM PURCHASES LAND FROM NATIVE AMERICAN

THE CANARSEES, TRIBE LOCATED IN SOUTH BROOKLYN, LED BY CHIEF SEYSEYS• 1655- FIRST LARGE SHIPMENT OF SLAVES DIRECTLY FROM AFRICA ARRIVED IN NEW AMSTERDAM• 1664-ENGLAND TAKES OVER NEW AMSTERDAM, RENAMES IT NEW YORK• 1776- INDEPENDENCE OF N. AMERICA• 1794 FRANCE ABOLISHES SLAVERY

CONT. TIME LINE• 1803- DENMARK ABOLISHES SLAVERY• 1808- CONGRESS BANS SLAVES FROM AFRICA• 1831- WILLIAM GARRISON BEGIN PUBLISHING THE LIBERATORS• 1834- BRITTAN ABOLISHES SLAVERY• 1849- HARRIOT TUBMAN ESCAPES SLAVERY BECOME A MAJOR CONDUCTOR FOR THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY• 1852-HARRIOT BEECHER STOW- UNCLE TOMS CABIN PUBLISHED• 1857- DREAD SCOTT CASE-CONGRESS DOES NOT HAVE TH E RIGHT TO BAN SLAVERY IN STATES AND SLAVES ARE NOT CITIZENS• 1861-CIVIL WAR STARTS• 1859- HARPERS FERRY- ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH A SLAVE REVOLT • 1863- ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN AMSTERDAM• 1863-TURNING POINT OF US CIVIL WAR• 1865- CIVIL WARS ENDS SLAVERY ABOLISHED• 13,14.15 AMENDMENTS ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION• WW1 1914-1918 GERMANY LOOSES• 1933-HITLER APPOINTED CHANCLOR OF GERMANY PARTY• 1939- HITLER ATTACKS POLAND• 1941 DECEMBER PEARL HARBOR US ENTER THE WAR• 1945-ENIMY LINES BROKEN THROUGH• 1945-US DROP ON HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI

SYLIVIA WYNTERS JUNCANO DANCE

1. RESISTANCE TO REHUMANIZING-DEHUMANIZING THE SKIN

2. INDIGENIZATION- CONFLICT WITH CREOLIZATION, 2 CULTURES THAT MEET, A-DOMINANT CULTURE B-SUBORDINATE CULTURE

3. ECONOMIC MAN- ESTABLISHING VICTORY IN ARGUMENT AN

EARLY ATLANTIC TRADE OF WIC

EARLY DUTCH ART WORK OF 1600’S

Left: “Landing of Negroes at Jamestown from a Dutch Man-of-War” 1619

What about this title bothers you?How does Language change the narrative?

Right: “The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam” in 1655

STOCK EXCHANGE

HITLER AND NORTH AMERICAN CONNECTION

THE GENOCIDAL MENTALITY AND ACTIONS OF THE U.S. POLICY MAKERS WOULD FIND SIMILAR EXPRESSION YEARS LATER WHEN THE NAZIS, UNDER HITLER, STUDIED THE PLANS OF BOSQUE REDONDO TO DESIGN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR JEWS

HITLER'S CONCEPT OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS AS WELL AS THE PRACTICALITY OF GENOCIDE OWED MUCH, SO HE CLAIMED, TO HIS STUDIES OF ENGLISH AND UNITED STATES HISTORY. HE ADMIRED THE CAMPS FOR BOER PRISONERS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND FOR THE INDIANS IN THE WILD WEST; AND OFTEN PRAISED TO HIS INNER CIRCLE THE EFFICIENCY OF AMERICA'S EXTERMINATION—BY STARVATION AND UNEVEN COMBAT—OF THE RED SAVAGES WHO COULD NOT BE TAMED BY CAPTIVITY.

PARALLEL: SOME OF THE PARALLELS INCLUDE THE DEATH MARCHES WHEN THE NAZIS FORCED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS FROM NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS NEAR THE EASTERN FRONT TO CAMPS INSIDE GERMANY AWAY FROM FRONT LINES AND ALLIED FORCES. I SAW AN IMAGE FROM MAY 11, 1945, WHERE GERMAN CIVILIANS WERE WALKING PAST BODIES OF 30 JEWISH WOMEN STARVED TO DEATH BY GERMAN SS TROOPS IN A 300-MILE MARCH ACROSS CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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WYNTERS, S. (2015). REAL HUMAN BEING. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS.

WHERE AND HOW TO USE ART TO RETELL HISTORIES• INVISIBLE POETRY QUOTES PROJECT- SELECT CRITICAL PIECES OF WRITING

FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE IMPACTED BY COLONIALISM – ACROSS AMSTERDAM AND NY

• WRITERS:• FEDRICK DOUGLAS• EDNA VINCENT MULLAY• WITTIER • ART EXHIBITS WHERE COMBINATION OF MIXED MEDIUMS ARE USED TO TELL

THE STORY OF COLONIAL IMPACTS- TRAUMA ETC.• FREE SCHOOL – ART WORK SHOP FOR CHILDREN IN THE PARK

WHAT IMPACT HISTORY HAS ON AN ARTISTHere stands their divideOnce the bridge is drawn, walls builtThere was no escapeOnly a one wayDeparture to the trains cars eastTo the smoking stacks

HERE AND NOWWho and what we areas a human race, valuesHeld onto, anchorThe story some chose As main historical accountWiping away lifeCulture, heritageAnd story of connectionColonial force

We are them, and theyAre us, their story is allof OUR History

TIME WILL ONLY TELLLet the words of hateBe removed from everyone Lips refusing painMelting the languageOnce accepted as normalNo hesitation He is not yet safeFree from societal chainsAwaiting journeyCan I keep the peaceWill the fight finally be done?Precious is that faceInnocent to lifeAbundant sweet laughter soStill no certain