Slavernijmonument/National Slavery Monument (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Dublin Core
Title
Slavernijmonument/National Slavery Monument (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Subject
Subject (Topic)
Abolition of slavery
Public art
Public sculpture
Slave ships
The Netherlands--Amsterdam
Transatlantic slave trade
Abolition of slavery
Public art
Public sculpture
Slave ships
The Netherlands--Amsterdam
Transatlantic slave trade
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Commemorative sculpture
Description
Taken collectively, the elongated bronze figures of enslaved Africans evoke the hull of a ship. An over life-sized woman, her arms outstretched as she arches her body backward, recalls the ship’s prow. The stern of the ship is personified by a number of nude figures, staggering forward, tethered to one another by the shackles around their necks and wrists. The rough-hewn texture of the bronze surface abstracts the individual features of each figure. The memorial commemorates the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands in 1863.
Creator
de Vries, Erwin, 1929-2018
Source
Photograph: Wikipedia Commons
Date
2002
Contributor
Stichting Sophiedela; National Platform Slavery Past (Landelijk Platform Slavernijverleden, LPS)
Format
JPEG
Language
English
Type
Visual Arts-Sculpture
Coverage
Oosterpark 9, 1092 AA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Medium
Bronze
Bibliographic Citation
Kardux, Johanna C. "Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands." In Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, ed. Heike Raphael-Hernandez, 87-105. Routledge: 2004.
Horton, James Oliver and Johanna C. Kardux. "Slavery and the Contest for National Heritage in the United States and the Netherlands." American Studies International 42, nos. 2 and 3 (June-October 2004): 51-74.
van Stipriaan, Alex, "Disrupting the Canon: The Case of Slavery." In Beyond the Canon: History of the Twenty-first Century, eds. Maria Grever and Siep Sturrman, 205-219. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007.
Rights Holder
Renée Ater
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Sculpture
Collection
Citation
de Vries, Erwin, 1929-2018, “Slavernijmonument/National Slavery Monument (Amsterdam, The Netherlands),” Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past, accessed October 1, 2026, https://slaverymonuments.org/items/show/1153.