New languages and religions formed in Suriname within decades of slavery’s start

Evidence

We can assert with some confidence, then, that within the earliest decades of the African presence in Suriname, the core of a new language and a new religion had been developed; and the subsequent century of massive new importations from Africa apparently had the effect merely of leading to secondary elaborations. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how African cultural persistence and creolization elsewhere (Jamaica, Brazil) map onto the Black radical tradition’s forging.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 691