While researching the concept of slavery we looked at numerous resources on the web. An interesting article we ran across is posted on the website of the New York Times. While searching the newspaper's electronic archives we looked for articles related to Curaçao.

The oldest article in the New York Times' online archives that refers to “Curaçao” dates back to 1857. The article describes Dutch policies regarding slave emancipation and both criticizes and praises Holland. The Dutch are criticized for taking longer than their neighbors to abolish slavery. On the other hand the Dutch Government is praised for being the only ones to “pay a fair equivalent to the slaveholder for his slave”.