On Monday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte issued a formal apology for the country's role in slavery over 250 years, referring to it as a 'crime against humanity.' The apology comes over 150 years after slavery was abolished in the colonial possessions of European nations, including Suriname, islands like Curacao and Aruba in the Caribbean, and Indonesia in the East. […]

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