Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 1138-7 Riviergezicht met gebouwen van een kato2

Autor/Urheber:

G.P.H. Zimmermann (Schilder).

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Beschreibung:

Water colour. On the river is tha Moy plantation, in the district of Coronie. The view in on the houses of the people living on the plantation. In the front aminals are drinking, en to the right an overseeer is resting with his gun. A female slave is walking with goods on her head. In the water is a korjaal. The district of Coronie, named after the Corona creek, became an independent district in 1851. The first plantations were founded in 1808 by English and Scots, the names of the plantations still point to this. It was the only districts with plantations facing the sea coast. The most important products were sugar and cotton, although the sugar plantations would gradually make place for cotton. Riverside with buildings of a cotton plantation in the background.

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CC BY-SA 3.0

Credit:

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

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