{"id":579,"date":"2012-03-08T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/preserving\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-03-08T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:59:34","slug":"slaves-and-slavery-in-suriname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/2012\/03\/08\/slaves-and-slavery-in-suriname\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaves and Slavery in Suriname"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pierre Jacques Benoit was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1782.\u00a0 Initially trained as a jeweler and goldsmith, he eventually became a globetrotter and artist.\u00a0 In 1830, he visited the Dutch colony of Suriname,\u00a0 one of the centers of the slave trade.\u00a0 During his time in Suriname,\u00a0 Benoit explored the coastal city of\u00a0 Paramaribo as well as the tropical interior, including the the Jewish independent town of Savanna.\u00a0 Along the way, he produced dozens of drawings and paintings depicting architecture,\u00a0 plantations, slaves, and local rites, rituals, and customs.\u00a0 Upon his return, he published an extravagantly illustrated book on Suriname, offering a multifaceted perspective of colonist and slave culture that existed during that time.\u00a0 Benoit somewhat contradicts Suriname’s notorious reputation, even by the standards of the time period, for being a particularly harsh territory for slaves,\u00a0 by portraying the colonists as humane and respectful toward their slaves and also portraying free Africans, Jews,\u00a0 and indigenous people in daily activities.<\/p>\n

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Funeral Procession for Slave Owner<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Three<\/a>

Three free black artisans converse while a wigmaker and his boy slave pass by.<\/p><\/div>\n

\""Dou"<\/a>

"Dou" or Great Slave Dance on New Year's Day<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Slave<\/a>

Sale of a slave<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Out<\/a>

Out on the hunt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jewish<\/a>

Jewish Savanna along the river<\/p><\/div>\n

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Description:<\/dt>\n
Benoit, P. J. Voyage \u00e0 Surinam :description des possessions n\u00e9erlandaises dans la Guyane. Bruxelles : Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des beaux-arts (De Wasme et Laurent), 1839.\u00a0<\/dd>\n
Persistent Link:<\/dt>\n
http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL:8156578<\/a><\/dd>\n
Repository:<\/dt>\n
Widener Library<\/dd>\n
Institution:<\/dt>\n
Harvard University<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

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Pierre Jacques Benoit was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1782.\u00a0 Initially trained as a jeweler and goldsmith, he eventually became a globetrotter and artist.\u00a0 In 1830, he visited the Dutch colony of Suriname,\u00a0 one of the centers of the slave trade.\u00a0 During his time in Suriname,\u00a0 Benoit explored the coastal city of\u00a0 Paramaribo as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}