John Gabriel Stedman (1744–1797), Scottish soldier and adventurer, fought against rebel slaves in Suriname, had a famous romance with the slave Joanna, and authored one of the most important books ever written about a slave society. Richard and Sally Price have been conducting research about Suriname since the 1960s and have written a number of prize-winning books about the region.
“The 1790 Narrative is mostly written in direct, earthy prose that
evokes the emotional response of a young European captain to the
naked breasts of ‘beautiful Negroe Maids,’ to the clouds of
ravenous ‘muskitos,’ to the tremors of tropical fever, and to the
delight of stripping off all his sweat-soaked clothing and diving
daily into the cool depth of a Surinamese river.... After the
passage of two centuries, we now have a superbly edited critical
edition of the book Stedman actually wrote.” —David Brion Davis,
New York Review of Books
“The editors have done their job brilliantly.” —Choice magazine
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