The 10 epochs of Dutch history

Category: Period 7

Time of wigs and revolutions

Post author By Webcare
Post date 5 April 2012

Has anyone ever asked you if you wanted to get rich quickly? The Dutch of the 18th century wanted that. They were going to trade slaves.

Tags Abolitionism, Citizenship, Constitution, Democratic revolution, Enlightened absolutism, Enlightened thinking, Fundamental rights, Lighting, Plantation colony, Rationalism, Slaves, Social relations, The Golden Age, Trade, Transatlantic slave trade

Period 7 Time of wigs and revolutions

Thinking about state and society in the Enlightenment

Post author By Webcare
Post date 5 April 2012

Patriots - Canon - Epoch 07 - Time of wigs and revolutions

Now you learn at home and at school that you have to form your own opinion. In the past, this was often punished. History was changed by the 18th century philosophers.

Tags Event, Lighting, Patriots, Protestants, Stadtholder, State

Period 7 Time of wigs and revolutions

Slave labour on plantations and the rise of abolitionism

Post author By Webcare
Post date 5 April 2012

Slavery - Canon - Epoch 07 - Time of wigs and revolutions

Unfortunately, slave labour still exists. In the history of the Netherlands there was also a lot of slave trade. The Netherlands has made a lot of money from it.