Diorama of Government Square in Paramaribo — History & Facts
This is Government Square (now Independence Square) in Paramaribo in the years when Suriname was under British rule (1804-1816). On the path at the right is a woman carrying a child in her arms. Many enslaved women had to give up caring for their own families to feed and raise the slave owner’s children.
Once they reached adulthood, these children in turn became the ‘owners’ of their former caretakers.
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