Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America, from the Years 1772 to 1777 ...University of Massachusetts Press, 1972 - 480 pages |
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... colony based on the exploi- tation of slavery in an environment which could be merciless . And since he was a humane and keen observer he understood at once the characteristics of the people and the land . In 1773 the colony of Surinam ...
... colony based on the exploi- tation of slavery in an environment which could be merciless . And since he was a humane and keen observer he understood at once the characteristics of the people and the land . In 1773 the colony of Surinam ...
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... colony from the Dutch , killing on this occasion above fifty of their men , and destroying nine pieces of cannon in Fort Zelandia . The new inhabitants were now in their turn laid under contribution , and the Dutch garrison were ...
... colony from the Dutch , killing on this occasion above fifty of their men , and destroying nine pieces of cannon in Fort Zelandia . The new inhabitants were now in their turn laid under contribution , and the Dutch garrison were ...
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... colony in Cayenne ( French Guiana ) in 1634. See : D. P. DE VRIES , Korte historiael ende journaers aenteyekeninge van verscheiden voyagiens , etc. Ed . Dr. H. T. Colenbrander ( Linschoten Society ) . The Hague , 1911 . 27. Zelandia A ...
... colony in Cayenne ( French Guiana ) in 1634. See : D. P. DE VRIES , Korte historiael ende journaers aenteyekeninge van verscheiden voyagiens , etc. Ed . Dr. H. T. Colenbrander ( Linschoten Society ) . The Hague , 1911 . 27. Zelandia A ...
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