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16
Juni
1894

A new Javanese cohort arrives aboard Voorwaarts

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📅 16 Juni 1894 📍 Suriname

The steamship Voorwaarts arrived on 16 June 1894 with the second major recorded Javanese cohort in the National Archives ship chronology. Recruitment from Java was still experimental, but it became a long-running source of plantation labor. The registers preserve arrival and contract details, while the workers’ own reasons for migrating and experiences of coercion require careful interpretation beyond administrative fields.

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Javanese migrants aboard Voorwaarts

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Dutch East Indies

Suriname

plantation employers