About the project
The New Holland Foundation presented the first report of the “Atlas of Dutch Presence in Angola” to Ambassador Isabel Resende Enconge. The publication is the first step to more activities, such as exhibitions and seminars, in the coming years.
This report comprises a preliminary survey of significant colonial fortifications during the decades of Dutch colonial involvement with West Central Africa. Scattered along the coast and on islands,these fortifications were located in the present countries of Angola, Congo, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Equatorial Guinea. During the zenith of Dutch colonial involvement (1641-1648) the Dutch West India Company (WIC) employed the designation “Southern District” (Zuiderkwartier) for this area, as opposed to the “Northern Quarter” (Noorderkwartier), which extended from Senegambia to the Bight of Biafra and was governed from Elmina. The Southern District was governed from the WIC headquarters at Luanda.
About
Presenting the first copy to ambassador Maria Encoge
Researchers
Researcher
Jaap Jacobs (PhD Leiden, 1999) is affiliated with the University of St Andrews. He has specialized in the early American history, specifically the Dutch in the Americas in the early modern period. He is currently working on a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant.
Researcher
Florian Herrendorf is master student History at the Leiden University. His fields of interest are Dutch overseas history with a focus on the Eerste West-Indische Compagnie or First Dutch West India Company. Florian has been working at the NHF since Januari 2022 as an intern where he is working on the project ‘Dutch Colonial Fortifications in West Central Africa, ca. 1600 – ca. 1684’.
News items and updates
- Onderzoek Florian HerrendorfHet archiefonderzoek van historicus Florian Herrendorf is afgerond en is de volgende fase ingegaan. Het onderzoek naar de Nederlandse periode in Angola (1641-1648), ondersteund door de… Read more: Onderzoek Florian Herrendorf
- Presentation preliminary survey “Dutch’ Colonial Fortifications in West Central Africa’The New Holland Foundation presented the first report of the “Atlas of Dutch Presence in Angola” to Ambassador Isabel Resende Enconge. The publication is… Read more: Presentation preliminary survey “Dutch’ Colonial Fortifications in West Central Africa’