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John Gabriel Stedman (1744 – 7 March 1797) was a Dutch States Army officer and writer best known for writing The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796).
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.
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.
1980: Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest (with Richard Price) 1984: Co-Wives and Calabashes 1985: Caribbean Contours (edited with Sidney W. Mintz) 1988: John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (edited with Richard Price)
Susannah Willard Johnson – A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson (edited by John Curtis Chamberlain) 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
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 ...
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Originally published in Stedman's Narrative. A slightly variant way of executing people by means of impalement was to force an iron meat hook beneath a person's ribs and hang him up to die slowly. This technique was in 18th-century Ottoman-controlled Bosnia called the cengela , [ 23 ] but the practice is also attested in 1770s Dutch Suriname as ...