The Netherlands abolished African slavery in the Dutch West Indies but required freed slaves in its South American colony of Suriname to stay on their plantations for another ten years. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
Junius P. Rodriguez, Chronology of World Slavery (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), 183.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Slavery/Abolition