2004
Volume 51, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0167-0441
  • E-ISSN: 3051-3634

Abstract

Abstract

As a follow-up to the article on Deknatel, I present an eighteenth-century Mennonite businessman in Amsterdam who felt responsible for the physical and spiritual well-being of the enslaved people on the plantation Akerboom in the Dutch colony Suriname. First, I give an impression of his socio-economic position. Then I examine him as a person directly involved with the owners of the plantation until its sale in 1770. The most remarkable thing is his initiative to invite a Moravian missionary there. His missionary work on the plantation was, however, short-lived and was marked by the cruelty of the local director towards the enslaved people.

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