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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blair, Barbara L

Titel

Wolfert Simon van Hoogenheim in the Berbice slave revolt of 1763-1764

Ist Teil von

• Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 1984, Vol.140 (1), p.56-76

Ort / Verlag

The Netherlands: Brill

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• H wrote an educated hand, knew French, German, English, and Latin (DB 226; DB 135; Boxer 1965:155-157, 168), but was not trained for any trade or career other than the military (DB 63, f. lv, 2r). [...]from about age 15, he took his place on the ladder that leads to officership, beginning as a cadet and rising to the rank of sub-lieutenant by or before 1760.2 In that year the Board of Directors of the Berbice Company invited him to accept the appointment as Governor-General of their colony (DB 17, p. 41 1). Besides the apparently sincere piety he expressed in his own writings, a valuable witness to this side of Van Hoogenheim's character was a Moravian Brethren missionary who mentioned him in letters home (Staehelin 1913-19 II:183-185, 188). [...]his visits to Zeist were made during his furloughs, probably while he was stationed in 's Hertogen-bosch, a round-trip of about 80 to 100 kilometers. [...]it is plausible that although a minority of the slaves remained "loyal" to their masters, about 4,000 rebelled.