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Narrative of a five years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America From the Year 1772 to 1777 Vol. 1, Classics To Go

Narrative of a five years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam Guiana is a first-person account of a military expedition to Surinam (modern-day Guyana) led by John Gabriel Stedman. The book details Stedman's experiences fighting against enslaved Africans who had revolted against their Dutch colonial masters and established their own settlements. The narrative covers the harsh conditions of the jungle, the challenges of navigating the terrain and fighting the rebels, and the complex relationships between the various groups involved. The book also includes reflections on slavery and the slave trade, and provides a unique perspective on the history of colonial South America.

John Gabriel Stedman

John Gabriel Stedman (1744 – 7 March 1797) was a Dutch-born Scottish soldier who wrote The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). This narrative covers his years in Suriname as a soldier in the Dutch military deployed to assist local troops fighting against groups of escaped slaves. He first recorded his experiences in a personal diary that he later rewrote and expanded into the Narrative. The Narrative was a bestseller of the time and, with its firsthand depictions of slavery and other aspects of colonialism, became an important tool in the fledgling abolitionist movement. When compared with Stedman's personal diary, his published Narrative is a sanitized and romanticized version of Stedman's time in Surinam.

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