How the past of slavery still lives on in Roze-Marie (89): ‘The pain runs deep’

How the past of slavery still lives on in Roze Marie

Only a few generations ago, the slavery past is so close to Roze-Marie Kensenhuis (89) and her daughter Valga Lamur (58). Their ancestors were enslaved in Suriname. Today, 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands, they explain how those traces can still be felt in their family. “People ask: can’t you ‘just’ forget it? But I can’t.”

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