Na een zomer vol Black Lives Matter besloot ik een boek te recenseren over een zwarte vrije vrouw in de kolonie Suriname die voor het recht om te trouwen actie voerde
Al jaren schrijf ik recensies voor een boekenwebsite. Dat gaat in het Engels vandaar dat de volgende tekst ook in die taal is. It was after a summer of Black Lives Matters protests all over the world in the midst of a pandemic that I was given the opportunity to review Elisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride Based on the true story of the first black woman in 18th century Suriname to get legal permission to marry white. by C V. Hamilton Surinam or in Dutch Suriname was a Dutch colony in the north of South America. While in European Holland slavery was outlawed and apparently there was not a problem when people of different skincolours wanted to marry (The country had not that long ago fought a war of independence over freedom of religion), the colony was ruled under a different set of rules. Those rules were stipulated by the first governor and it felt to me like the whole area was ruled like it was a company. One of those rules stipulated...
