Ramona Negron – författare

An indispensable resource for academics and general readers, this fully translated and revised edition of De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (Walburg Pers, 2022) examines the emergence of private Dutch slave trading in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the enterprise of Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt - whose slave ships transported an estimated 11,000-13,000 enslaved West Africans to Suriname - Ramona Negron and Jessica den Oudsten reconstruct the experiences of shipboard crew and captives and uncover the inner workings of the private slave trade.Drawing upon newly uncovered archival materials, the authors demonstrate how the West India Company's abandonment of its monopoly in the 1730s precipitated a flourishing private trade. Pioneering case studies - most notably the return voyage of the 't Gezegende Suikerriet - reveal voices long silenced in conventional narratives.This edition features a new revised introduction and a new epilogue, making it the definitive scholarly account of Amsterdam's principal private slave traders and their enduring legacies.

An indispensable resource for academics and general readers, this fully translated and revised edition of De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (Walburg Pers, 2022) examines the emergence of private Dutch slave trading in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the enterprise of Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt - whose slave ships transported an estimated 11,000-13,000 enslaved West Africans to Suriname - Ramona Negron and Jessica den Oudsten reconstruct the experiences of shipboard crew and captives and uncover the inner workings of the private slave trade.Drawing upon newly uncovered archival materials, the authors demonstrate how the West India Company's abandonment of its monopoly in the 1730s precipitated a flourishing private trade. Pioneering case studies - most notably the return voyage of the 't Gezegende Suikerriet - reveal voices long silenced in conventional narratives.This edition features a new revised introduction and a new epilogue, making it the definitive scholarly account of Amsterdam's principal private slave traders and their enduring legacies.

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built profitable businesses within a system that officially excluded them. The book follows networks that linked Europe, the Caribbean, and the Spanish Americas, and examines how trade operated amidst war, embargoes, and changing laws. Methodologically, it combines notarial records, ego documents, judicial records, and state papers from archival materials from the Netherlands, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Spanish Americas with newly compiled datasets. It reconstructs tools of risk and finance such as bottomry loans, partnerships, agency chains, and the management of trust and reputation, and clarifies the legal gray zones that enabled trade. The central case is the Coymans Asiento and its collapse, which connects discussions on ports, networks of agents, and the flow of silver to Amsterdam, offering fresh perspectives on early modern silver flows. The book advances a transimperial framework that treats foreign merchants as stakeholders within the Spanish imperial economy and challenges nationalist narratives. It is written for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in early modern, colonial, and business history, and is accessible to interested nonspecialist readers, booksellers, and librarians.

In this book, a new generation of scholars offers fresh perspectives on the history of the Dutch slave trade. Traditionally, Dutch research has focused on business practices, often overlooking the enslaved and the complexities of illegal trade and violence. By experimenting with innovative methodologies and underutilised primary sources, this volume reveals the potential to uncover perspectives of enslaved people aboard slave ships, to investigate unstudied areas like sexual violence, and to examine the roles of Dutch elite in the trade.