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Account, kept by Walre Wolff

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This collection traces the history of seven Dutch sugar plantations in Guiana (the colony of Surinam) through nearly a century of major developments, including the Napoleonic Wars and the transition from a slave to a free labor economy. The records consist of correspondence regarding the administration of the plantations in the Surinam colony, and include a copy book of letters from Holland to the plantation managers, 118 letters from the plantation managers to the owners in Holland, and documents recording accounts, produce, etc. including a few maps. The plantations came into the family in 1742 from one Marcellius Jacobij of Paramaribo, whose heirs managed the plantations of Eghtenveen, Ephrata, Utrecht, Souberg, Klein Marceille, and Groot Marceille as collective absentee landowners.
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