Stedman's Surinam
Subtitle: life in an eighteenth-century slave society
By: edited by Richard Price and Sally Price.
Contributors: Price, Richard, 1941-; Price, Sally.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797 -- Travel -- Suriname.; Slavery -- Suriname -- History -- 18th century.; Suriname -- Description and travel.; Suriname -- History -- To 1814.
Description: This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life--and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery. -- Publishers description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-350).
"An abridged, modernized edition of Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman."