"""Some Quality People Taking Themselves to Church"" (caption translation). This engraving shows a white man and woman dressed in fine clothes being followed by several enslaved people. Benoit explained that ""on Sundays and holidays, rich planters and businessmen go to church with their families, and are sometimes followed by five or six slaves"" (p. 23). Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782-1854) was a Belgian artist, who visited the Dutch colony of Suriname on his own initiative for several months in 1831. He stayed in Paramaribo, but visited plantations, maroon communities and indigenous villages inland."
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