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‘This book presents the lives of two black servants at the court of stadholder William V. Sideron arrived from Curaçao…

From Willemstad to Stadtholder William V

In 2017 my book about Willem Frederik Cupido and Guan Anthony Sideron was published. It is about two boys who…

2018: Contemporary ‘stained glass’ by Kehinde Wiley and the Singh Twins

Similarities and Differences between Kehinde Wiley and the Singh Twins Kehinde Wiley During my visit to Bozar in Brussels in…

Madame_la_princesse_de_Lamballe_by_Antoine-François_Callet_(circa_1776,_Callet)

Vrouwen in de wereldgeschiedenis

Bewerking uit het boek Cupido en Sideron. Twee Moren aan het hof van Oranje. Periode: achttiende eeuw. Locaties: Den Haag…

From Cupido and Sideron: childen as gifts/kinderen als cadeautjes

In the eighteenth and other centuries it was quite normal in Europe to give African children as gifts. The French governor in Senegal, Stanislas Jean, chevalier de Boufflers, describes in letters how he selects children for the high nobility in France. 1786: “I am just buying a little African girl of two or three years old to send to Madame the Duchess of Orleans […]. Her eyes are like little stars and her appearance is so soft and calm that I am moved to tears when I think of her. “

Accara een desperado in tijden van slavernij II: Suriname, moord en Fourgeoud

Accara: slaafgemaakte, rebellenleider, desperado en pensionado Tijdens mijn zoektocht naar documenten en gegevens voor mijn boek Cupido en Sideron. Twee Moren…