<<(SLAVERY).>> George Gerson Belinfante. Het Eiland St. Martin, zijn toestand, uitzigten en goed regt, naar de jongste berigten.

Rare pamphlet justifying the need for compensation to slave-owners on the Dutch part of the Caribbean island of St. Martin / Sint Maarten following the abolition of slavery in 1863. Belinfante claims documentary facts as of 1848 were erroneously submitted leading to lower rates of compensation in St. Martin: Fl. 36 per slave, as opposed to fl. 200, paid by the Government to others in the Dutch possessions of the Caribbean and Surinam. Scion of a prominent Dutch-Jewish family, George Gerson Belinfante (1837-88) was not opposed to abolition, rather he fought to obtain what he regarded as just compensation for slave-owners.