History of Suriname
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The early history of Suriname dates from 3000 BCE when Indigenous peoples first inhabited the area. The Dutch acquired Suriname from the English, and European settlement in any numbers dates from the
A plantation in Suriname by Dirk Valkenburg (1707?)
Plantations in Suriname around 1800.
Coastline of the Guianas
A Dutch plantation owner and female slave from William Blake's illustrations of the work of John Gabriel Stedman, published in 1792–1794.
Surinam (Dutch colony)
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Surinam, also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas and the predecessor polity of the modern country of Suriname. It was bordered by the fellow Dutch colony
An illustration of a Dutch plantation owner and slave from William Blake's illustrations of the work of John Gabriel Stedman, first published in 1792–1794
Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, the Governor of Suriname (1923)