![]() Though inoffensive & friendly, they have objected, on account of some jealousy as to their right, to the whites coming among them & have not allowed it beyond a certain distance but a treaty was recently made, which we shall be among the first to enjoy the fruits by which the country has been more freely opened. The country in the upper Surinam is inhabited by the “Bush-negers”, who are the descendants of the runaways in the early days of the colony, & have relapsed into a state of complete barbarism. We shall be gone ten days or a fortnight, & hope through the assistance of the Governors influence & the orders which he will send forward in advance of us, to get higher up the river than travellers have generally been, heretofore. Wyman, he noted, had received an official letter from the governor to permit his visit and that letter was then carried by “Joannis Arabbi ‘one of the great captains’ ” who then brought the letter to “Abraham, the Gramman.” He had also found a letter from Wyman, written in Suriname, to his sister Elizabeth, dated April 26, 1857, that reads in part: ![]() The previous year, he explained, he had come across Harvard professor Jeffries Wyman’s 1857 travel journal to Suriname, which included a trip up the Suriname River. medical schools, with a strong Atlantic World and transnational grounding. In late 2018, CW wrote to RP to tell him of a book he was writing on the history of racial science and slavery in U.S. Keywords: Saamaka Suriname Maroons history of medicine
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