Narrative of Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971. Two volume set. 480pp. Quartos [27.5 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over marbled boards with paper labels on the backstrips. Housed in a matching slipcase. Near fine. Complete with all maps and plates. John Gabriel Stedman (1744-1797) in the Dutch slave colony of Suriname, South America, in 1773. He was among hundreds of troops called in to fight against rain forest communities of runaway and insurgent slaves known as Maroons. Stedman recorded his experiences in a journal, which formed the basis of this work. (Inventory #: 10301)