Afterword

This afterword takes up some of the conceptual and historiographical concerns raised in the special section on Hermina and Otto Huiswoud. By examining the work of the Black Archives in Amsterdam, which holds the Huiswouds’ personal papers and book collection, the author argues that the continued study of the Huiswouds helps broaden the scope of Caribbean radical history by bringing into focus the history, politics, and ideas of a radical Black Dutch Caribbean tradition. The Black Archives sits within a longer history of Black radical thought that spans the Dutch Empire, from Surinam to the Netherlands, and offers some clues for grappling with the challenges that continue to frame and confront the study of Black radicals in organized Marxism.