OCC CIV NOTES 11/17

BOARD SHIT

Surinam-
-settled in 1651 by <100 settlers from Barbados
-founded by them as a slave plantation society
-1665- 40-50 sugar plantations ("white" population <1500, enslaved population 3000, indian population ?)
-1667 Dutch took over colony
-1715 European settlers <2000, Enslaved population ~22,000
-1735 Europeans 2000, enslaved population 50,000
-emancipation in surinam 1863

Romances- Loves/Courages of heroes, heroines, kings + queens
Novels- familiar, everyday world of reality

LECTURE SHIT

oroonoko is a novel?
-maybe. depending on who you ask

surinam
-first large scale settlement
-founded by settlers from people already living in a slave colony
-conquered by the dutch in 1667

lots of wars between the dutch and the english, TRADE WARS
-english lost surinam, left, took their slaves with them
-dutch took over surinam, brought thousands of slaves with them
-common practice was to work the slaves to death
-1740s-50s
-surinam produced the most goods and consumed the most goods per capita of any carribean colony
-africans outnumbered europeans by about 25-1
-65-1 in plantation districts
-there was what is known as 'perpetual war' in surinam
-between the settlers and the 'maroons'
-plantations were close to forests, so slaves were known to run into them to try to escape
-one group of runaway slaves managed to establish a fort and raided plantations
-slave revolts were the norm in surinam, oroonoko doesn't exaggerate about this
-there were about 700-800 free slaves living in the forests
-the maroons (free slave populations) survive beyond emancipation
-lots of places had slave revolts
-barbados 1675
-antigua 1687
-every few years in jamaica 1670s-80s
-pretty much all british colonies
-trying to put down the slave revolts, the english enacted massively brutal laws
-often the english and dutch offer pardons for revolters who lay down their arms
-they routinely went back on their word and tortured and killed them

talks about the book for a long while