Amsterdam mayor apologises for city’s past role in slave trade

<p>Femke Halsema says city’s past is ‘indivisible from the persistent racism that still festers’</p><p>The mayor of Amsterdam has apologised for former governors’ extensive involvement in the global slave trade, saying the moment had come for the city to confront its grim history.</p><p>Debate about the city’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/18/rijksmuseum-slavery-exhibition-confronts-cruelty-of-dutch-trade">role in the slave trade </a>has been going on for years but has gained more attention amid the global reckoning with racial injustice that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/01/amsterdam-mayor-apologises-for-citys-past-role-in-slave-trade">Continue reading...</a>