Suriname
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Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Situated slightly north of the equator, over 90% of
Slave auction in Paramaribo, in 1831
Javanese indentured servants in Marienbourg plantation, c. 1930
Suriname in 1914
Presidential Palace of Suriname
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.