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🧵 Today is Ketikoti, the official Emancipation Day of Surinam, where those enslaved under the Dutch colonial regime are remembered, and their emancipation is celebrated. The Dutch slave owners were compensated 300 guilders per slave that was 'emancipated'. I put that in quotes because the
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slaves were not only not compensated at all, they were made to perform forced labour on their masters' plantation for another DECADE under 'contract labour' that was little better than the 'official' slavery that came before. The King has made a formal apology for the Dutch role in
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