Plantation Settlement, Surinam, ca. 1860
Description
A plantation village not long before the Dutch abolished slavery in 1863. Shows thatched roof houses, men and women (some carrying infants), and children playing.
Source
G.W.C. Voorduin, Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien (Amsterdam, 1860-1862), plate 8. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Creator
Voorduin, G.W.C.
Language
Dutch
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
VOOR1
Spatial Coverage
South America--Suriname
Citation
"Plantation Settlement, Surinam, ca. 1860", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed May 26, 2022, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1396