Statia man featured in exhibition of Africans in 18th century Netherlands

Cocquamar Crenequie who was christened Willem Frederik Phillippe is pain...

By Marvin Hokstam AMSTERDAM — The tiny North Holland town of Weesp is currently paying homage to a peculiar part of its history, through an exhibition that narrates the stories of Africans who worked for the town’s dignitaries in the 18th century. Among these remarkable men who left African traces in Weesp, but whose faces … Lees meer