From the project: "The project is an initiative at VU Amsterdam aimed at including the history of slavery and the slave trade in local, national and regional history in Europe. This is done by pointing out locations in European cities and towns that have a direct or indirect connection with these histories.
Inspired by a similar research project in London, archives of the compensation records were used to map the addresses of absentee slave-owners living in Amsterdam, for the first time in 2012. History students at VU University produced a map showing names and addresses of slave-owners living in Amsterdam at the time of abolition, in 1863. The basis for this map were the Indexes compiled by historian Okke ten Hove and other researchers at the National Archives in The Hague, based on the compensation records." (https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/mapping-slavery)