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Suriname

The lone Dutch foothold left in the Americas after the empire swapped New Amsterdam for sugar, a plantation colony of Maroon rainforest and Javanese, Hindustani and Creole settlers between the Corentyne and Maroni rivers.

Endures: independent from the Netherlands on 25 November 1975, the smallest sovereign state in South America, capital Paramaribo.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Suriname — the shape you scrub through changes in 1667 · 1807 · 1922 · 1934 · 1975.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1667 Suriname for New York The Treaty of Breda confirms Suriname to the Dutch in exchange for English New Netherland (New York).
• 1975 Suriname independent Dutch Guiana becomes the independent Republic of Suriname on 25 November.
• 1975 Suriname independence Dutch Guiana, the Netherlands' last mainland American colony, became the independent Republic of Suriname on 25 November 1975, with Paramaribo as its capital.

Further reading

• A New History of Modern Latin America Emeritus Department of History Lawrence A Clayton · 2017

  A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.

• The Cambridge History of Latin America Leslie Bethell · 1984

  The Dutch Guianas within the Cambridge survey of Latin America (broad context).

• The Cost of Sugar Cynthia McLeod · 1987 · fiction

  The English translation of Suriname's best-known novel, set on an 18th-century Dutch sugar plantation.

Sources

• Suriname — Wikipedia