# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gabriel-stedman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:29:59.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gabriel-stedman"
name: "John Gabriel Stedman"
slug: "john-gabriel-stedman"
description: "John Gabriel Stedman was a Dutch-British army officer and writer best known for writing The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). This narrative covers his experience in Suriname between 1773 and 1777, where he was a soldier in a Dutch regiment deployed to assist colonial troops fighting against groups of maroons. He first recorded his experiences in a personal diary that he later rewrote and expanded into the Narrative. The Narrative was a bestseller of the time and, with its firsthand depictions of slavery and other aspects of colonialism, became an important tool in the fledgling abolitionist movement. When compared with Stedman's personal diary, his published Narrative is a sanitized and romanticized version of Stedman's time in Surinam."
tagline: "British–Dutch soldier, slave catcher and author (1744-1797)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bartolozzi_-_John_Gabriel_Stedman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1744"
deathDate: "1797-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.103854666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Gabriel Stedman"
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    title: "John Gabriel Stedman"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gabriel_Stedman"
    title: "John Gabriel Stedman"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Gabriel_Stedman"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gabri%C3%ABl_Stedman"
    title: "John Gabriël Stedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gabriel_Stedman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump