"As for reconstructing, and slowly rebuilding the country, that's where we are in right now, I don't think we can imagine what slavery did to the people here, It goes very deep, these things lasts for a very long time, even the rebelling against colonialism has also traces of this. Here it was quite late, 1830, but a bit further to the West, slavery lasted 3 to 4 centuries, 40 to 60 million people were moved from here, to America, that's no small thing, I would say that's an African holocaust."
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The end of an era: 130 years of experiences of Dutch missionaries Marga Kerklaan, Ambo, 1992. testimony by Dr. H Hinfelaar (White Fathers)
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