Interview According to historian Elisabeth Koning, Dutch minstrel shows, in which white artists played black buffoons, served as a source of inspiration for Black Pete. Black Pete was influenced by the international blackface tradition. The “minstrel show” was a...
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The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies
Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom, 1599. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Marx & Engels Archive Now Openly Available Online
Since August 11, 2015, The International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam has made its archive containing letters, manuscripts, publications, and other papers from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels available for free online. All of the documents have been...
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