The gift of life after slavery: close-kin ownership, slavery and manumission in Suriname 1765-1795

Figures & data

Figure 1. Overview manumissions 1765–1795.¹⁰ Sources: unpublished dataset Camilla de Koning (2022) (Brana-Shute, 1985, pp. 213–214)., NL-HaNa, 1.05.10.02, inv. nrs: 393 to 461 cover the years 1765–1795.¹¹

Table 1. Female-to-male ratio in petitioners, owners and manumittees in Surinamese manumission requests 1765–1795.

	Petitioners		Owners		Manumittees
Gender	Sample	Dataset I	Sample	Dataset I	Sample	Dataset I
Female	65%	14%	68%	27%	51%	65%
Male	35%	84%	32%	73%	49%	35%

Source: Dataset I, n=340 Sample n=40.

Table 2. Overview of number of people in the petitions, 1765–1795.

Nr. petitioned for	Occurrence of petition	Percentage occurrence	Number of people	Percentage nr. of people
1	217	67%	217	40%
2	51	16%	102	19%
3	30	9%	90	16%
4	15	5%	60	11%
5	8	2%	40	7%
6 or more*	4	1%	34	6%
Totals	325	100%	543	1

Source: Dataset I, *One request each was found manumitting groups of 6, 8, 9 and 11 people.

Figure 2. Kinship bonds of manumitters in close-kin ownership petitions in Paramaribo 1765–1795. Unpublished dataset Camilla de Koning (2022).¹⁹

Figure 3. Kinship and manumission diagram de vrije Jan Samson.

Source: Unpublished database Camilla de Koning (2022).

MD = Manumission Date

Brana-Shute, R. (1985). The manumission of slaves in Suriname, 1760-1828 [ Unpublished dissertation].

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