Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte

Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte (born March 22, 1822, Goes, Neth.—died March 3, 1902, The Hague) was a Liberal Dutch statesman who energetically attacked the exploitative colonial Culture System, which extracted wealth from the Dutch East Indies by using forced labour, and who succeeded in abolishing some of its abuses. Van de Putte spent 10 years at sea before becoming a sugar planter on Java in 1849. By the time he returned to the...