Unlimited Quote Collections
Organize your favorite quotes without limits. Create themed collections for every occasion with Premium.
Slavery is a common thing. We should not be ashamed of that at all. What we should try to explain is why there was no longer slavery in Western Europ… - Piet Emmer
" "Slavery is a common thing. We should not be ashamed of that at all. What we should try to explain is why there was no longer slavery in Western Europe after 1450, but there was still slavery elsewhere in the world. I would venture the proposition that with slavery, Western Europe would have become even richer and grown faster economically than without slavery.
English
Collect this quote
About Piet Emmer
Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Emmer (Haarlem, 17 October 1944) is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of Colonial History at Leiden University, specializing in European Expansion and related slavery and immigration.
Also Known As
Alternative Names:
P.C. Emmer
•
Cornelis Pieter Emmer
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Piet Emmer
My argument in my book is that except for the slave revolt in Haiti, slave revolts did not contribute to slave liberation, but the decision to end it was made in capitals in Europe. Again, I think thinking fundamentally about slavery is really a Western thing. And slave revolts did not contribute to that.
Try QuoteGPT
Chat naturally about what you need. Each answer links back to real quotes with citations.
One of the things that is constantly questioned is profitability. The thinking is mostly: the slave trade is so strange, you only drive it if you earn a lot from it. While, for example, an awful lot of slaves already died of infectious diseases while travelling across the Atlantic. I calculated that the Dutch slave trade was only an estimated 0.005 per cent of national income. So that is not much. Moreover, the Dutch slave trade is the only one that ceased to exist for economic reasons.
Loading...