Baptism of Maria Zara Johanna in Delft, 1794, Image of the Administration of Holy Baptism to a Black woman from the coast of Africa, in the Remonstrant Church in Delft, September 24, 1794 (title on object), Baptism of Maria Zara Johanna, a woman from Ghana, in the Remonstrant Church in Delft, September 24, 1794. Maria was enslaved in Ghana and transported from Elmina to South America where she was publicly sold to a certain Hekker in the Dutch colony of Demerary. This Hekker brought her to the Netherlands. The kneeling woman is baptized by Rev. Abraham van der Meersch, in the church interior

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