In his early novels, Albert Helman (1903 –1996) addressed the cruelties and injustice of slavery in plantation society in the seventeenth century. Nonetheless, the first critical approach to Surinamese history told from the slave's point of view was written in Dutch: In 1934, Anton de Kom (1898 –1945) published We Slaves from Surinam, which was censored by the Dutch authorities. 1935) have helped maintain that connection. Sranan serves as a connection to the African-American past in Suriname, and important poets such as Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910 –1992) and Micha ël Slory (b. Eddy Bruma, a lawyer and politician, has composed theater pieces and poems about the Maroon heroes. Sranan was identified with strategies of resistance and survival, and it became the political language for the nationalist politicians before independence in 1975. Voorhoeve found a tabooed but flourishing tradition in which storytelling was considered to be a serious specialization, and the songs, dances, and musical performances were extremely rich with reminiscences of the times of slavery. Jan Voorhoeve (1923 –1983), a well-known linguist, was sent by the Moravians to study Sranan culture in postwar Paramaribo. The country's most important poet, Trefossa (1916 –1975), was also a Moravian. The schoolmaster "Papa" Koenders, who published the magazine Foetoeboi in the 1940s, belonged to the Moravian Church, as did Sophie Redmond (1907 –1955), a medical doctor and an author of theater texts. The Moravian Mission always promoted the use of Sranan and was instrumental in its development as a literary language. He was an autodidact and a member of the Moravian Church. The first Maroon author, Johannes King (1830 –1899), wrote in Sranan, the main Creole language of Suriname.
These writers publish their work in Dutch and deal with contemporary issues of injustice, discrimination, and the dramatic changes occurring in their village communities. This heroic history is rarely addressed in literary works by contemporary writers of Maroon descent, such as Doris Vrede, Andr é Pakosie, and Julian With. They have also at times engaged in armed resistance against the military forces of the various governments of the nation. The Maroons are descendants of former slaves who escaped from their plantations and reconstructed their African cultural heritage in the rain forest. Suriname, located on the north Atlantic coast of South America, is the country in which Maroon experiences have been most visible throughout history.
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