John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative supported slavery in this colony, but nevertheless became a major tool for abolition worldwide due to sixteen graphic illustrations in it by William Blake. For 10 points each:
[10e] The novels Candide and Oroonoko fictionalized the notoriously brutal system of slavery of what former Dutch colony?
ANSWER: Suriname [accept Dutch Guiana or Nederlands-Guyana]
[10h] With his wife Sally, this historian published the definitive critical edition of Stedman’s Narrative in 1988. This man pioneered the study of Saamaka oral histories of slavery with experimental ethnographies like First-Time and Alabi’s World.
ANSWER: Richard Price
[10m] In First-Time, Price illustrates the Saamaka’s resistance to slavery with a fable about the hunter Bási Kodjó, who keeps secret his ability to turn into a part of these objects. The maroon Zumbi led a large quilombo named for these objects.
ANSWER: palm trees [or palms; accept Palmares; accept palmas, palmeiras, palmen, or palmbon; accept awara trees or awarabon; prompt on trees, árvores, boom, bomen, bon, or kofimama; prompt on thorns, doornen, or maka by asking “can you be less specific?”]
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