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Channel: Yann LeGall
Date: 2021-01-04

Why is nothing about the slave trade told next to the statue of Friedrich Wilhelm? 
Video by Postcolonial Potsdam: https://postcolonialpotsdam.org/



Sources:

Wikimedia Commons:
- Portrait of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg by Anselmus van Hulle, 1717.
- Louis XIV. Description de la magnifique et superbe entree Du Roy et de la Reyne en la ville de Paris. Engraving by Adriaen Millaert.
- Charles II of England and Queen Catherine of Braganza (Dutch engraving, 3rd quarter of the 17th century).
- Engraving of King William III and his wife Queen Mary who shared the English monarchy in the late 17th century.
- Carlos II, grabado calcográfico firmado en el marco central, ca. 1690. Engraving by Marin Bouché-Philibert Bouttats.
- Domenico-de-ga: Politische Karte Ghanas (Western Region mit Groß Friedrichsburg hervorgehoben), Wikimedia.
- Heinrich Bauke: Friedrich I. 1905, Bronze. Straße des 17. Juni, Charlottenburger Tor, Berlin-Charlottenburg

Photos of Großfriedrichsburg: courtesy of Kaya Schröter.

Quotes and further sources:
- Daaku, Kwame Yeboa (1970). Trade and Politics on the gold Coast, 1600-1720: A Study of the African Reaction to European Trade. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
- Bruchmann, Rainer D. K. (1999). “Zur brandenburgischen Kolonialgeschichte - die Insel St. Thomas in der Karibik.” Brandenburgische Entwicklungspolitische Hefte 31. Teltow: Brandenburgisches Entwicklungspolitisches Institut e.V.
- van der Heyden, Ulrich (2001). Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste : die brandenburgisch-preußische Kolonie Großfriedrichsburg in Westafrika. Berlin, Selignow.