The agenda for future research follows in the spring of 2024. It builds on the publication. It details possible research avenues for the period 2024 to 2034.  The publications are relevant to both Dutch society and the Dutch Caribbean islands, Suriname and other formerly colonized societies, for Dutch colonial slavery history has and continues to have a major impact on societies around the world.

The project aims to bring together scattered forms of knowledge and provide a vision for further research. Through seminars and gatherings, both in the Netherlands and the wider Kingdom, the editorial board attempts to provide more connection for researchers of slavery. To reach a wider audience of researchers and citizens, new ways of presenting the project are continuously workshopped.

State and Slavery speaks of colonial slavery, rather than slavery, referring to the forms of slavery that emerged from European colonial expansion from the fifteenth century up until the end of the nineteenth century. The impact Dutch slavery has had on the world and the people in it started as the sixteenth century with the enslavement of people in Africa. It was intensified during the slavery period, and continued to affect people’s lives thereafter. Thus, colonial slavery has had a major impact on politics, economics, culture, and society. To comprehend the extent of this impact project looks at both the period of slavery and slave trade, and its abolition and afterlives in our contemporary society. By exploring such a major time period State and Slavery manages to also explore other forms of forced labour and exploitation that existed during and after slavery. The project will additionally address former colonized areas in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean and thereby provide some insights into the differences, similarities, and connections between these areas.