Plantation Settlement, Surinam, ca. 1860
A plantation village not long before the Dutch abolished slavery in 1863. Shows thatched roof houses, men and women (some carrying infants), and children playing.
Image Title
Plantation Settlement, Surinam, ca. 1860
RegID
SI-OB-477
Date
1860
Title
Plantation Settlement, Surinam, ca. 1860
Source
G.W.C. Voorduin, Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien (Amsterdam, 1860-1862), plate 8. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
Dutch
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
South America--Suriname
Reproduced In
G.W.C. Voorduin, Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien (Amsterdam, 1860-1862), plate 8.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
2-May-16
Identifier
VOOR1