Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796): A Scholarly Introduction By: Elizabeth Polcha In 1771 John Gabriel Stedman, a Scots Brigade soldier who had served previously for eleven years in the Dutch military, volunteered to combat marooned escaped slaves in the Dutch colony of Suriname. Stedman spent four years…

Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796): A Scholarly Introduction By: Elizabeth Polcha In 1771 John Gabriel Stedman, a Scots Brigade soldier who had served previously for eleven years in the Dutch military, volunteered to combat marooned escaped slaves in the Dutch colony of Suriname. Stedman spent four years…

Scholarly Introduction Based on John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Year Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796), this 1838 edition of Stedman’s travel narrative focuses on Joanna, Stedman’s fifteen year old enslaved sexual servant in Surinam. This 1838 edition was published in London by abolitionist Isaac Knapp, who advertised Narrative of Joanna within a wider anti-slavery…