Han Jordaan
Han Jordaan (1954) is a researcher with the KITLV. He is involved in the execution of a joint project with the Institute of Netherlands History in The Hague: The Dutch and the culture in the Atlantic world, 1670-1870'.
Jordaan studied fine arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and history at Leiden University, specialized in Caribbean history. The focus of his research is mainly on Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. He conducted an extensive study in the archives of the second Dutch West India Company (1674-1791) on slave trade and slavery in Curaçao, which is now partly published. Presently he is working on a dissertation about the position of the free blacks and coloreds in Curaçao society during 18th and 19th century. This research is also part of the project 'Dutch Atlantic Connections 1680-1795.
Between February 2004 and September 2006 Jordaan coordinated the pilot stage of another KITLV based project: 'The Atlantic world and the Dutch, 1500-2000'. In the preceding years he worked as an archivist at the National Archives in The Hague, as a researcher for section Medical History of the Medical Department of the Free University Amsterdam, as an independent researcher, and as a museum consultant in the Netherlands Antilles.
Project:
AWAD
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1795
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A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.
Selected Publications
‘The Curaçao slave market; From asiento trade to free trade, 1700-1730’ in Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven (eds), Riches from Atlantic commerce; Dutch transatlantic trade and shipping, 1585-1817. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden/Boston, 2003.
‘De veranderde situatie op de Curaçaose slavenmarkt en de mislukte slavenopstand op de Plantage Santa Maria in 1716’, in: H.E. Coomans et. al. (eds), Veranderend Curaçao. Stichting Libri Antilliani: Bloemendaal, 1999.
‘Curaçao; Een aangewezen oord voor mislukkelingen. Achtergronden van de memorie van J.W.C. van Laar’, in: H.E. Coomans et. al. (eds), Breekbare banden; Feiten en visies over Aruba, Bonaire en Curaçao na de Vrede van Munster 1648-1998. Stichting Libri Antilliani: Bloemendaal, 1998.
‘De eerste slaven op Aruba; Het plantage-experiment van 1715’, in: L. Alofs et. al. (eds), Arubaans Akkoord; Opstellen over Aruba van voor de komst van de olieindustrie. Stichting Libri Antilliani: Bloemendaal, 1997.
(with T. v.d. Lee), ‘The huricane of 1819; Destruction and reconstruction of buildings on St. Martin’, in: H.E. Coomans et. al. (eds), Building up the future from the past; Studies on the architecture and historic monuments in the Dutch Caribbean. De Walburg Pers: Zutphen, 1990.
