قصة الكتاب :
John Gabriel Stedman, of Holland, was a lieutenant-colonel in the Dutch military and served in Surinam (Dutch Guiana) where he married a mulatto slave named Joanna and fathered a son. This compilation of excerpts from Stedman\'s narrative concern Joanna and their son, and begins with Stedman and Joanna\'s first meeting while she was a slave, their marriage, early life together, difficulty in securing freedom for Joanna and her son