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Français : A Surinam Planter in his Morning Dress : un planteur du Suriname dans ses habits du matin. Gravure de William Blake, d'après un dessin de Jean-Gabriel Stedman pour illustrer son récit de voyage Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America ; from the year 1772, to 1777, publié en 1796.
Stedman first arrives in Surinam on 2 February 1773. Upon his arrival in Surinam, Stedman and the troops are met by residents of the fortress Amsterdam, along the Surinam River. Here, Stedman gives his first description of the landscape of Surinam. [12] According to Stedman, the land abounded with delicious smells – lemon, orange, and ...
John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (Newly Transcribed from the Original 1790 Manuscript, Edited, and with an Introduction and Notes, by Richard and Sally Price) 1990. Alabi's World; 1991. Two Evenings in Saramaka (with Sally Price) 1992.
A contemporary description of the war between the Maroons and the plantation owners in Suriname can be found in Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman. Suriname was occupied by the British in 1799, after the Netherlands were incorporated by France, and was returned to the Dutch in ...
Price's early work, which focused on the Maroons of Suriname, included Co-Wives and Calabashes, "an analysis of the ways that cultural ideas about the genders influence Saramaka women's art and artistic activity and the complementary contributions that these artistic activities make to their social life," [5] which won the University of Michigan’s Alice and Edith Hamilton Prize in Women’s ...
Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas and the predecessor polity of modern country of Suriname.It was bordered by the fellow Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east.
Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank, dedicated to the history of Surinamese currency, located in the building of the Central Bank of Suriname, Mr. F.H.R. Lim A Po straat 7, Paramaribo. [6] Surinamese Museum (Surinaams Museum)- General history and culture museum of Suriname, located in Fort Zeelandia, Abraham Crijnssenweg 1, Paramaribo. [7]
Europe Supported by Africa and America is an engraving by Blake held in the collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The engraving was for a book written by Blake's friend John Gabriel Stedman called The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). [49] It depicts three women embracing one ...