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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Hanged by the rib was a punishment for a rebellious slave in Suriname. Illustration by William Blake at Stedmans Reize naar Surinamen. John Gabriël Stedman, a Scotsman in Dutch service, described the Dutch slaveholders in Suriname as cruel, in the book Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam in 1797.
An engraving by William Blake illustrating "A negro hung by his ribs from a gallows," opposite page 116 in Captain John Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 1792. The hanging took place in the then-Dutch ruled Surinam, an example of the barbarity of punishments of slaves, and the reputation of ...
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.
John Gabriel Stedman – The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam Mary Wollstonecraft – Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Births