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oa Jacob van Wijlick en de Hernhutterse zendeling op de Surinaamse koffieplantage Akerboom
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, Volume 51, Issue 1, Sep 2025, p. 175 - 184
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- 01 Sep 2025
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.
© Ruud Lambour