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Rudolph Davis Dance Company performing the Ponum dance during celebration of the 158th anniversary of emancipation from slavery at Watkins House on Boardwalk Boulevard on Thursday, July 1.
PHILIPSBURG--The apologies offered by Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema on behalf of the Dutch capitals administration for the active involvement of the Amsterdam city council in the commercial system of colonial slavery and the worldwide trade in enslaved people are a start said Prime Minister of St. Maarten Silveria Jacobs during her speech on the occasion of Emancipation Day 2021 on Thursday, July 1.