Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society. An Abridged, Modernized Edition of Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

by John Gabriel Stedman, Richard Price (Editor), Sally Price (Editor)

Overview

This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on 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, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801842603
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.96(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Richard Price is the author of twelve books, including an earlier work on the Saramaka people, the award-winning First Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. He is coeditor, with Sally Price, of John Gabriel Steadman's Narrative of a Five Year Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. He has taught at Stanford, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Minnesota, and the University of Paris.

Sally Price is professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She has co-written Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest and Co-wives and Calabashes.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Map for Stedman's "Narrative"
Chapter 2. Stedman's 1790 "Narrative"
Editors' Notes to Stedman's "Narrative"
References Cited

Editorial Reviews

This abridged edition includes about half of Stedman's original text and over a third of the original plates . . . The text itself is made more readable by moderate editorial changes in spelling, punctuation, and word order . . . A well-accomplished abridgment of the editors' own 1988 edition.

Colonial Latin American Historical Review

Editors Richard Price and Sally Price make available to students and others an abridged, modernized edition of Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, written in 1790 (and published in a complete, critical edition in 1988). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

This abridged edition includes about half of Stedman's original text and over a third of the original plates . . . The text itself is made more readable by moderate editorial changes in spelling, punctuation, and word order . . . A well-accomplished abridgment of the editors' own 1988 edition.
—Colonial Latin American Historical Review

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