Adriaan de Bruin

Adriaan de Bruin (ca. 1700–1766), earlier called Tabo Jansz, was an enslaved servant (kammermohr) of Dutch politician . Born in Africa and enslaved, he got to the Dutch Republic by way of either the Dutch Caribbean or in Dutch Surinam, and ended up a free man in Hoorn, North Holland. De Bruin and van Bredehoff stood for a portrait (1727) by Nicolaas Verkolje, now in the Westfries Museum in Hoorn.

Adriaan de Bruin

Adriaan de Bruin (ca. 1700–1766), earlier called Tabo Jansz, was an enslaved servant (kammermohr) of Dutch politician . Born in Africa and enslaved, he got to the Dutch Republic by way of either the Dutch Caribbean or in Dutch Surinam, and ended up a free man in Hoorn, North Holland. De Bruin and van Bredehoff stood for a portrait (1727) by Nicolaas Verkolje, now in the Westfries Museum in Hoorn.