This collection traces the history of seven Dutch sugar plantations in Guiana (the colony of Surinam) through nearly a century of major developments, including the Napoleonic Wars and the transition from a slave to a free labor economy. The records consist of correspondence regarding the administration of the plantations in the Surinam colony, a...
Created:
1767-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This collection traces the history of seven Dutch sugar plantations in Guiana (the colony of Surinam) through nearly a century of major developments, including the Napoleonic Wars and the transition from a slave to a free labor economy. The records consist of correspondence regarding the administration of the plantations in the Surinam colony, a...
Created:
1768-02-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.