Talk:Dutch colonisation of the Guianas

Sources demonstrating that Demerara, Essequibo, Berbice, as well as Surinam are part of Dutch Guiana

Recently, I had a rather heated discussion with User:Chipmunkdavis, who maintained that only Surinam was known as Dutch Guiana, and that the article Surinam (Dutch colony), which I created shortly before, should be merged with this article. Since this discussion often resurfaces, apparently because after 1814 Dutch Guiana had become coterminous with Surinam, I provide these sources demonstrating that Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice have also been traditionally considered part of Dutch Guiana. If I have time, I will add these sources to the article in some way. Fentener van Vlissingen (talk) 23:22, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Sources demonstrating that Surinam is part of Dutch Guiana

In time, he felt it his duty to take an active part in the missionary work. After a training period he was dispatched to Surinam, in Dutch Guiana, as the leader of the mission station of the Brethren. -- Øystein Ore (1974) - Niels Henrik Abel: mathematician extraordinary, page 135

The colony of Surinam in Dutch Guiana, extending a hundred miles along the north-east coast of South America, between the fifth and seventh degrees of north latitude, has been known for many years past. -- Thomas Christie (1796) - The Analytical review, or History of literature, domestic and foreign, on an enlarged plan, Vol. 24, page 225

When terms of pacification next took place between the English and the Dutch, the latter resigned rights over the late New Netherlands, and accepted, in exchange, the colony of Surinam in Dutch Guiana. -- François-Xavier Garneau (1866) - History of Canada: from the time of its discovery till the union year 1840-41, Vol. 1, page 225.

Every part of the world where domestic slavery is established, may be occasionally liable to insurrection and disquiet, more especially where the slaves constitute the majority of the inhabitants; but the colony of Surinam, in Dutch Guiana, has been peculiarly unfortunate in this respect. -- John Gabriel Stedman (1963) - Expedition to Surinam: being the narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772 to 1777, elucidating that country and describing its productions, with an account of Indians of Guiana and Negroes of Guinea, page xi

Sources demonstrating that Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice are part of Dutch Guiana

In 1796 a Colonial Expedition was sent to South America, 1796. where the Dutch settlements of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice in Dutch Guiana peacefully surrendered at the end of April to Captain John Parr of the Malabar. Marcus Robert Phipps Dorman (1902) - A history of the British empire in the nineteenth century, Vol. 1, page 27

As commander, on 5 June, 1795, he obtained a victory over a French division off Porto Rico, and he aided in 1790 in the capture of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, in Dutch Guiana, of which he became the governor. James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888) -- Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Vol. 4, page 334

Early in 1796 they also took Ceylon, Malacca, Cochin, Trincomalee and the Spice Islands, in the East Indies, from them; and Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo, in Dutch Guiana, in South America, in May, 1796. -- Israel Smith Clare (1893) - The Unrivaled History of the World: Sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, page 1402

Sources demonstrating that Berbice is part of Dutch Guiana

AMSTERDAM, NEW, the seat of government of Berbice, in Dutch Guiana, is situated between the rivers Berbice and Canje, near their confluence, and extends along the banks of the former, about 1,5 miles, with the houses facing the waters. -- (A. Constable and co., 1822) - The Edinburgh gazetteer, or geographical dictionary, page 166

On some occasions, African rebels tried to come to an agreement with the colonial power. In 1763, in the colony of Berbice in Dutch Guiana, enslaved Africans led by Cuffee rebelled for the fifth time in 30 years, seized part of the colony and threatened to take over the whole island. When the Dutch brought reinforcements, the enslaved initially suggested a partition of the island and sought to establish an alliance with the maroon communities in neighbouring Suriname. Understandingslavery.com - Resistance and Rebellion

Sources demonstrating that Demerara is part of Dutch Guiana

He had left France about the year 1782,7 and probably had gone to Demerara in Dutch Guiana, where some members of the Rousselet family lived and where at least one of them was then occupying an official position. -- Robert Howard Lord, John E. Sexton, Edward T. Harrington (1944) - History of the archdiocese of Boston in the various stages of its development, 1604 to 1943, Vol. 1, page 414

When van M died, a few years later, at Demerara, in Dutch Guiana, I learnt that his will contained several clauses in my favour. It merely remained for me to avail myself of them. Ida Saint-Elme (2008) -- Memoirs of a Contemporary: the Reminiscence of of Ida Saint-Elme, page 28

Sources demonstrating that Essequibo is part of Dutch Guiana

Along with the Leewards, several other slave colonies close to Spanish territory lost slaves because of this tolerant policy: Dutch St. Eustatius and the Danish islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix to Puerto Rico; Jamaica to Cuba; South Carolina to Florida; and Essequibo in Dutch Guiana to Orinoco or Spanish Guiana (Venezuela). -- David Barry Gaspar (1993) - Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua

A British fleet reduced the settlements of Demerara and Essequibo, in Dutch Guiana, in South America; but a British squadron on its way to attack the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope was defeated off the Cape de Verde Islands by the French fleet under... -- Israel Smith Clare (1893) - The Unrivaled History of the World: Sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, page 1306