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Map of the Johanna sugar plantation

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Map of the Johanna sugar plantation

Knapp, Jan Daniël

Title Leupe: Plann van de Compagnies Plantagie Johanna en de Vryplantagies Hofwerck, Slingeland, Solitude enz.

The sugar plantation Johanna is at the centre of this map.

This plantation is divided in lots based on amounts in years. A further division is made between the green coloured hinterland and the red coloured land at the river’s bank.

The plantation settlement is to be found at the northwest side of the plantation, that is, on the bottom side of the map.

North is bottom left.

Scale-bar: 500 Rhineland Rods = 125 ‘strepen’.

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