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Markus Vink, associate professor of history, is the author of the article, "Freedom and Slavery: The Dutch Republic, the VOC World, and the Debate Over the 'World's Oldest Trade'", which was published in the South African Historical Journal 59 (2007), pp. 19-46.
This article builds on his previously published work, 鈥樷漈he World's Oldest Trade鈥: The Dutch Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century鈥, which appeared in the (official journal of the World History Association) 14, 2 (June 2003), 131-77.
Dr. Vink said his recent research "profited greatly" from a previous NEH Fellowship, and discussion and comments at a series of international conferences and workshops, most notably: 鈥楥ontingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World鈥, which he attended at Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006, and 'Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean', held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in the same year.
