Set in Suriname, Gabriel Stedman’s autobiography “A Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Suriname”, gives its audience a novelistic approach to the cruelty against the slaves who were living there. Although Stedman’s work has been used to work in favor of the abolitionist agenda, the work itself does nothing in terms of speaking out against slavery. Rather, this autobiography shows a great deal of sympathy for the slaves affected; one being a love interest of Stedman himself. In this essay, I examine the actions of Stedman throughout his autobiography to determine his intended audience and how he sets himself up to be a sort of novelistic hero. When his love interest with a “mulatto” woman is depicted as
