Narrative of Joanna, an Emancipated Slave, of Surinam: From Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes...
- ISBN-10
- 0331672871
- ISBN-13
- 9780331672879
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 82
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-22
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- John Gabriel Stedman
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Excerpt from Narrative of Joanna, an Emancipated Slave, of Surinam: From Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam The author was an Englishman, who partly from a love of seeing new countries, and part ly from ambition, entered the Dutch service, 'and went out to protect the Colony of Surinam from the incursions of What he calls rebel NE groes; being in fact an independent republic of colored citizens, daily augmented in num bers by runaway slaves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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