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Portrait of Laurens Reael
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In the early days of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), key administrators debated the deployment of enslaved people. Governor General Laurens Reael, for example, did not see slavery as a solution to the labour shortage.
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Credit linePortrait of Laurens Reael. c. 1620. Cornelis van der Voort. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
