Before revision: 250px| Maroon village, Suriname River, 1955 In South America, slavery was the norm.
After revision: Suriname (circa 1914) in the Encyclopedia of the Dutch West Indies, by Surinamese cartographer Herman Benjamins and Dutch ethnographer Johannes Snelleman.250px|250px| Maroon village, Suriname River, 1955 In South America, slavery was the norm.