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We slaves of Suriname / Anton de Kom ; translated by David McKay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: x, 248 pages: illustrations; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1509549013
  • 9781509549016
  • 1509549021
  • 9781509549023
Uniform titles:
  • Wij slaven van Suriname. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 2022 DC 306.36209883 D369
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Contents:
Frimangron / Tessa Leuwsha -- The breath of freedom / Duco van Oostrum -- Why Anton de Kom still inspires generation after generation / Mitchell Esajas -- Foreword / Judith de Kom -- We slaves of Suriname -- "Sranan," our fatherland -- The era of slavery -- The era of "freedom" -- Reunion and farewell.
Summary: Anton de Kom's We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial rule, when the old slave mentality persisted, long after slavery had been formally abolished. --from back cover.
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Includes index.

Frimangron / Tessa Leuwsha -- The breath of freedom / Duco van Oostrum -- Why Anton de Kom still inspires generation after generation / Mitchell Esajas -- Foreword / Judith de Kom -- We slaves of Suriname -- "Sranan," our fatherland -- The era of slavery -- The era of "freedom" -- Reunion and farewell.

Anton de Kom's We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial rule, when the old slave mentality persisted, long after slavery had been formally abolished. --from back cover.

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