260:(Brief history of the Suriname colony for more advanced youth, 1863), she was cautious with the topic. She called the trade in Africans "illegal", but was aware of the negative impact on the career of Johannes Christiaan Palthe Wesenhagen, another free black who had written about slavery in 1849. Her book contains little criticism of the Netherlands and did not write about oppression of the colonized under Dutch rule. Overall the book has a positive characterization of Dutch administration and became one of the three most-used textbooks in the education system until 1945.
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Vlier opened a girls' school and began teaching. She moved into a house on
Gravenstraat, one of the most prestigious addresses in Paramaribo. Alarmed at the lack of knowledge her students had of their homeland, she began drafting the first history of the colony. In the preface of the book, probably
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Suriname. Born into an intellectual family who descended from slaves, Vlier was educated in the Netherlands and returned to Suriname to teach. Recognizing that students were being taught European history and had no knowledge of
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Vlier attended the school operated by a former slave, Johanna
Christina Jonas. Jonas had been educated in the Netherlands and opened a school, which had no class or racial barriers, upon gaining her own freedom. Vlier was a good student and in 1838 was recognized with an award for her scholastic
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written in 1861 1861, she stated that her motivation for writing was that school children of
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which he worked with his own slave labor, before becoming police chief of
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