Markus Vink publishes new paper

Markus Vink, associate professor of history, is the author of the article, "Freedom and Slavery: The Dutch Republic, the VOC World, and the Debate Over the 'World's Oldest Trade'", which was published in the South African Historical Journal 59 (2007), pp. 19-46. 

 

This article builds on his previously published work, ‘”The World's Oldest Trade”: The Dutch Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century’, which appeared in the Journal of World History (official journal of the World History Association) 14, 2 (June 2003), 131-77.  

Dr. Vink said his recent research "profited greatly" from a previous NEH Fellowship, and discussion and comments at a series of international conferences and workshops, most notably: ‘Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World’, which he attended at Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006, and 'Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean', held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in the same year.