Ebook Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam Transcribed for the First Time from the Original 1790 Manuscript John Gabriel Stedman Richard Price Sally Price 9781450206471 Books

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Product details Paperback 808 pages Publisher iUniverse (March 18, 2010) Language English ISBN-10 1450206476

Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam Transcribed for the First Time from the Original 1790 Manuscript John Gabriel Stedman Richard Price Sally Price 9781450206471 Books Reviews

• “Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America” , by John Gabriel Stedman (1796, misc. editions since; major revision in 1988!). Partial comments by Kristina Gadd in the July 26, 2018 online “Ozy” newsletter
  
  “…in 1777, Stedman sold the rights to his diary to Joseph Johnson, [who after editing it and developing engravings, finally] published it in 1796.
  
  “But Stedman was enraged. It turned out that Joseph Johnson had secretly hired an editor to revise the original text and then published a version Stedman condemned as an outright distortion. “My book was printed full of lies and nonsense,” he wrote to his sister-in-law…..
  
  “It took nearly two centuries before readers were given an accurate account of Steadman’s Suriname adventure, after historians Richard and Sally Price painstakingly compared his diary to the published version and came out with a new edition in 1988”….[but who substituted some of their own ‘politically correct’ words for some of Steadman’s.]
  
  …. “What’s more, descriptions of Stedman’s sexual conquests had been entirely removed, along with his comments on the relationship between enslaved women and their White European masters, a quite common union known as a “Suriname marriage.” Johnson’s editor had also taken Stedman’s middle-of-the-road opinions and made them more pointedly pro-slavery….”
  
  [Also], “John Njenga Karugia, a researcher at the Inter-Centre-Programme on new African-Asian Interactions at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany”, [notes some discrepancies in the engravings.]