African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
64p, John Gabriel Stedman, of Holland, was a lieutenant-colonel in the Dutch military and served in Surinam (Dutch Guiana) where he married a mulatto slave named Joanna and fathered a son. This compilation of excerpts from Stedman's narrative concern Joanna and their son, and begins with Stedman and Joanna's first meeting while she was a slave, their marriage, early life together, difficulty in securing freedom for Joanna and her son.
Cohen,David William (Author) and Greene,Jack P. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
344 p, Contents: Colonial Spanish America / Frederick P. Bowser -- Surinam and Curaçao / H. Hoetink -- Colonial Brazil / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The French Antilles / Léo Elisabeth -- Saint Domingue / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall -- Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- Barbados / Jerome S. Handler and Arnold A. Sio -- The slave states of North America / Eugene D. Genovese -- Cuba / Franklin W. Knight -- Nineteenth-century Brazil / Herbert S. Klein
