No. Immigrant farmers to Iowa on my father’s side from Friesland (northern Holland). Same on my mother’s side but from southern Holland with some German and French in the background. Both came over in the very early 1900’s.
The Dutch were big in the slave trade though in the 1600’s along with the folks from Portugal though. They Visited the Gold Coast along with Ghana where the blacks were warehoused before being shipped out to the Americas.
However, it was black tribes who conquered other blacks and sold them to the Euro’s. Slavery was ubiquitous throughout Africa and the Middle East, and about everywhere else going back to OT times.
Simple facts that that aren’t known, told, or taught, ignored, or seemingly remembered by contemporary race baiters.
Excellent post!
