Recently discovered writings from 18th-century Dutch Suriname, including a play by Pieter van Dyk, The Life and Business of a Surinam Plantation Manager, with the Slaves, on a Coffee Plantation (ca. 1785), include voices and perspectives of the subaltern not previously studied. They help revise the "captivity narrative" of the Americas that has been told almost exclusively from the European perspective. Although Van Dyk was likely a Dutch Creole plantation manager, his play can be considered a captivity narrative because the story is told through the voices of female African slaves, who suffer numerous instances of violence and rape, and the slaves are presented as hardworking people who escaped only under unduly harsh conditions - contrary to portrayals in European writings. Works such as Van Dyk's lend a more complete historical perspective to the "complications of raced and gendered captivity" in 18th-century Dutch Suriname.