Creating the visual memory of slavery in Dutch Brazil: Frans Post and Albert Eckhout exhibited

Abstract

This chapter revisits the oeuvre of Frans Post and Albert Eckhout to investigate the many ways in which their works engaged with the enslavement of Africans and Afro-Brazilians during ‘Dutch Brazil’ (1630–1654) and how slavery and the enslaved individuals present in these works have been addressed in museum exhibitions since the 1930s.