Colonial exposé writing developed later in the Netherlands than in Britain or the US.

Evidence

Colonial muckraking was still only a developing genre in the Netherlands, pale next to the antislavery campaigns in Britain and the United States. But Valck was of a generation familiar with one of its most widely acclaimed practitioners, Eduard Douwes Dekker, whose exposé-novel Max Havelaar (1860) put the Indies administration in the political limelight of scandal and Douwes Dekker on the international literary map. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1104