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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). This narrative covers describes his experience in Suriname between 1773 and 1777, where he was a soldier in a Dutch regiment deployed to assist ...
Español: A Surinam Planter in his Morning Dress : plantador de Surinam. Grabado por William Blake, basado en un dibujo de John Gabriel Stedman para ilustrar su relato 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, publicado en 1796.
An illustration of a Dutch plantation owner and slave from William Blake's illustrations of the work of John Gabriel Stedman, first published in 1792–1794. The economy of the Colony of Suriname depended upon people enslaved at its plantations.
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 ...
Stedman, John Gabriel (1992): Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society. An abridged, modernized edition of narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam, edited by Richard Price, Sally Price; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Reprint edition, March 1, 1992. ISBN 0801842603
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.
Wopke Hoekstra with the President of Suriname, Chan Santokhi on the occasion of Ketikoti in Paramaribo (from Suriname) Image 40 Maroon village, along Suriname River , 1955 (from Suriname ) Image 41 A Dutch plantation owner and female slave from William Blake 's illustrations of the work of John Gabriel Stedman , published in 1792–1794.
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)