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Interracial Marriages and Reversed Surnames in the Dutch East Indies

Interracial marriages had produced generations of mixed-blood children as well a unique tradition of naming children with reversed surnames.

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20 Agustus 2023
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VOC Governor-General Jacob Mossel (in office 1750-1761). (Rijksmuseum).

INTERRACIAL marriage was a common phenomenon during the Dutch colonial era. The large population of European men who came and lived in a number of areas of the archipelago from the 17th to 18th centuries was not directly proportional to the number of European women in the respective region. As a result, many of those European men chose to live with local women, who then gave birth to mixed-blood children, known as Eurasian or Mestizo.

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