• Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas...
  • Suriname became a Dutch colony in 1667. With the abolition of African slavery in 1863, workers were brought in from India and Java.
  • Suriname developed into a flourishing plantation colony after Dutch planters, driven out of Brazil from the mid-17th century, settled in the area.
  • Also known as. English. Surinam. Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas. ... 0 references. currency. Surinamese guilder. start time. 1942.
  • Dutch slaving ships had not called in to Surinam as the colony had a sizeable influx of indentured servants directly from England.
  • ...the “Kleine Vaart” in the Caribbean, Antillean colonial society, the colonists and the society of Suriname, Surinam: plantation colony
  • Main article: Surinam (Dutch colony). Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English explorers visited the area.
  • Surinam (dutch guiana). Dutch possession on the northeastern coast of South America. Surinam is the home of the Jewish community with the longest...
  • Albert was born on 14 April 1909, in Paramaribo, Surinam. Surinam was a Dutch colony in South America. Like many of his fellow countrymen and women
  • Suriname was a Dutch colony from 26 February 1667 when Dutch forces captured the English colony during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
  • In later years, Dutch Guiana referred to the remaining Dutch colony of Surinam, as the British merged the former Dutch settlements of Berbice, Essequibo, and...
  • Surinam (Dutch colony), commonly called “Dutch Guiana” after the loss of other large colonies in the area.