Original sentence: Mc Leod studied the life of Elisabeth Samson for over five years, a free Negress whose name occurs prominently in historical works on Suriname, because she wanted to marry a white men, which was forbidden in the colony Suriname during the first half of the 18th century
Edited sentence: Mc Leod studied the life of Elisabeth Samson for over five years.Samson was a free Negress whose name occurs prominently in historical works on Suriname because she wanted to marry a white man (which was forbidden in the colony Suriname during the first half of the 18th century)