Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteeth-Century Slave Society

The famed account of 18th-century slavery in South America, "made more readable by moderate editorial changes . . . A well-accomplished abridgment" (Colonial Latin American Historical Review).

This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price's acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic.

The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, con...