White lies and black markets : evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800 /

White lies and black markets : evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fatah-Black, Karwan, author.
Imprint:	Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 ; volume 31 Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
Subject:	Black market -- Suriname -- History. Shipping -- Suriname -- History. Immigrants -- Suriname -- History. Economic development -- Suriname -- History. Black market. Colonization. Commerce. Economic development. Immigrants. Politics and government. Shipping. Suriname -- Colonization. Suriname -- Commerce -- Netherlands. Suriname -- Commerce -- North America. Netherlands -- Commerce -- Suriname. North America -- Commerce -- Suriname. Suriname -- Politics and government -- To 1814. Netherlands. North America. Suriname. Electronic books. Electronic books -- History. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11310839

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ISBN:	9789004283350 9004283358 9789004283329 9004283323
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname--one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast--in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony's survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined metropolitan authorities. By combining the available data on Dutch and North American shipping with accounts of major political and economic developments, the author uncovers a hitherto hidden world of illicit dealings, and convincingly argues that these illegal practices were essential to the development and survival of the colony, and woven into the fabric of the colonial project itself"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Fatah-Black, Karwan. White lies and black markets 9789004283329
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004283350

Table of Contents:

Origins of Dutch and European colonization in Suriname
To these lands and to nowhere else?
The ascent of the Surinamer, 1690s-1730s
Local supplies of labor and provisions
Controlling the slave trade
Trade with the heartland of independence
Consulted archives.