Dutch King Willem-Alexander will deliver a speech Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the country abolishing slavery, amid speculation that he could offer an apology on behalf of the royal house.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's apology late last year for the country's role in the slave trade
Research published last month showed that the king's ancestors earned the modern-day equivalent of 545 million euros from slavery, including profits from shares that were effectively given to them as gifts. That isn't enough for some in the Netherlands. Two groups, Black Manifesto and The Black Archives, organized a protest march before the king's speech Saturday under the banner "No healing without reparations."
"Just as we remember our forefathers on this day, we also feel free, we can wear what we want, and we can show the rest of the world that we are free." said 72-year-old Regina Benescia-van Windt. The Dutch first became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1500s and became a major trader in the mid-1600s. Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans-Atlantic slave trader, according to Karwan Fatah-Black, an expert in Dutch colonial history and an assistant professor at Leiden University.In 2018, Denmark apologized to Ghana, which it colonized from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century.
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