Karwan Fatah-Black
Karwan Fatah-Black is a historian at Leiden University, specialising in Dutch Colonial History. 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. Karwan is the project leader of the KITLV research project How slaves became citizens: Proto-citizenship, empowerment, and inequality in the Age of Emancipation, 1770-1930, funded by the Royal Academy of Arts and Science fund, Statesman Thorbecke fund of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) and the Dutch Research Council Vidi grant.
In 2025 Karwan Fatah-Black co-edited the publication Slavery in the Cultural Imagination: Debates, Silences, and Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space together with Marrigje Paijmans.
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