Actual
Actual proof is hard to come by. But there are estimates.
The planters would not lose on labor. This meant that they paid the same in wages as it would normally cost them to keep/maintain a slave.
It is estimated that a freed slave was paid between 3 and 4 guilders per week. I'm not sure about that because according to some sources, many of these freed slaves still left the plantations even though they were obliged by the Govt. to work another 10 years with pay.
That is why the Netherlands started luring guest workers from, China, Java and India to come work in Suriname. The promised them a lot and delivered nothing. Their work condition were horrible as well. Most of these gust workers ended up staying because they couldn't afford the trip back home, which was by design.
But today all the descendants of slaves and guest workers alike are proud to call themselves Surinamese.
Based on your estimates, peanuts is an understatement:
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