About John Gabriel Stedman
[Wikidata] British–Dutch soldier, slave catcher and author (1744-1797)... | [Wikipedia] John Gabriel Stedman was a Dutch-British army officer and writer best known for writing The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). This narrative covers his experience in Suriname between 1773 and 1777, where he was a soldier in a Dutch regiment deployed