Dutch Government Announces Study of Slavery Apology Fund

While other European nations have made payments in atonement for massacres in their overseas colonial possessions, this initiative would be the first effort at reparations for participation in the transatlantic slave trade itself. 

Rijksmuseum Slavery Exhibition Confronts Cruelty of Dutch Trade

"Dutch traders shipped over 600,000 Africans to north and South America and between 660,000 and 1.1 million people around the Indian ocean."

Lessons from the 18th Century Dutch Republic

by Matthijs Tieleman

The history of the Dutch Republic demonstrates that polarization can gradually destroy a country from within and can easily be exploited by foreign actors. The embrace of political pluralism by every citizen is the key antidote to the rot of polarization.