Karwan Fatah Black
Karwan Fatah Black is university lecturer at the department of social and economic history in Leiden. He studies the Dutch colonial empire in the Atlantic world and specifically issues pertaining to economic development, slavery, emancipation and citizenship. In recent years he has assisted financial institutions, families, museums and government bodies to unearth and understand their ties to the colonial past. His current research teams study the transition from slavery to citizenship and are funded by the Royal Academy of Arts and Science fund Staatsman Thorbecke and the Dutch Research Council Vidi grant.
