Me, You and Cultural Heritage

Invisible pieces of the Groningen Heritagescape In our previous blog, we visited sites related to the invisible heritage related to Moluccans in the Netherlands. We are again going to take a look at invisible cultural heritage. This time, as you might have guessed from the title, in Groningen, the capital of a province of the Netherlands of the same name. We toured the city to explore the history it has with Slavery another form of Dark Cultural Heritage that has been omitted and ignored resulting in its invisibility. This history, which is not only a part of the history of Groningen but of the Netherlands has been slowly forgotten, hidden in plain sight. However, a Modern historian and co-author (with Margaret Fokken ) of the book “Sporen van het Slavernijverleden in Groningen” (Traces of the History of Slavery in Groningen), Barbara Henkes has joined forces with the project, Mapping Slavery NL to acknowledge this heritage in the province of Groningen and is currently