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Dutch government’s colonial profits revealed

The House of Orange made over half a billion dollars from its colonies in a single century, a government-commissioned study found

The Netherlands’ House of Orange profited from its colonial holdings by about 3 million guilders – $600 million (€547 million) in modern money – from 1675 to 1770, according to the government-commissioned State and Slavery study, presented to the Dutch Parliament