Dutch law forbids marriage between black and white, so their relationship is called "Suriname marriage" by the colonists and "living in sin" by the Dutch Reformed Church.Įlisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride is a fiction based on the true story of the first black woman to successfully challenge marriage laws upheld by the colonial Governor, the white planters who make up the Courts of Justice and Police, and Holland's Society of Suriname. The Free Negress Elisabeth Samson, educated and wealthy owner of coffee plantations and hundreds of slaves, lives with a white military lieutenant, Carl Otto Creutz. In the 18th century tropical Dutch colony of Suriname, wealth is measured by the number of slaves one owns.
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