(H/B) WHITE LIES AND BLACK MARKETS

Παρουσίαση

In White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname - one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast - in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony's survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined metropolitan authorities.
By combining the available data on Dutch and North American shipping with accounts of major political and economic developments, the author uncovers a hitherto hidden world of illicit dealings, and convincingly argues that these illegal practices were essential to the development and survival of the colony, and woven into the fabric of the colonial project itself. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preliminary Material
1. Introduction
2. Origins of Dutch and European Colonization in Suriname
3. To These Lands and to Nowhere Else?
4. The Ascent of the Surinamer, 1690s-1730s
5. Local Supplies of Labor and Provisions
6. Controlling the Slave Trade
7. Trade with the Heartland of Independence
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Consulted Archives
Index