Online Lecture: The Slave Ship Gideon: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Slave Trade
Description
The Slave Ship Gideon:
A History of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Slave Trade with New
Netherland
Date: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Online Event
$10/person | HRMM Members $5/person
A zoom link will be emailed to all registrants on the day of the event.
Program Topic:
In August of 1664, the Dutch slave ship the Gideon arrived in New Amsterdam’s harbor with 290 enslaved Africans on board. These men and women were meant for the WIC colony of New Netherland and Amsterdam’s city colony of New Amstel, in what is now Delaware. Yet, the Gideon arrived in New Amsterdam at a fateful time: four English warships arrived in the harbor within weeks of the ship’s arrival, which would result in the English takeover of the region. In this presentation, I will explore the Gideon’s voyage, the experiences of the people forced on board, and what its voyage reveals about the seventeenth-century slave trade with New Netherland.
Presenter:
Andrea Mosterman is Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History and Jerah Johnson Professor in Maritime and World History at the University of New Orleans. She studies slavery and the slave trade in the Dutch Atlantic world and in early New York. Over the years, her work has been published in various academic and public-facing publications. Her book Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York (Cornell University Press, 2021), which won the 2020 NNI Hendricks Award, uses spatial analysis to examine enslavement and resistance in New York’s Dutch communities. She currently researches the voyage of the Dutch slave ship the Gideon and the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic slave trade with North America.
This program is being presented online via zoom. All registrants will recieve a zoom link on the day of the lecture through the email they used to sign up.
Members can receive their registration discount by logging in. Please note that you must be a current member the date of the event to receive your discount.