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title page detail, Narrative of a five years’ expedition… (1796). Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
In 1772, the English officer John Gabriel Stedman was sent to the Dutch-controlled colony of Suriname in South America to help end an armed revolt by plantation slaves. Stedman’s diary of his experiences in Suriname became the two-volume Narrative, of a five years’ expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana... The Narrative was initially published by Joseph Johnson to great popular success in 1796.
John Gabriel Stedman’s map of Suriname
The Consecrated Eminence 