There is a story that has largely disappeared into oblivion because those who have experienced it preferred not to speak about it. Much details of the story are therefore lost. After the abolition of slavery, indentured laborers were recruited among poor, desperate farmers in British India and Indonesia (Java) to provide workers shortages on the Dutch plantations in Surinam. Marienburg, owned by the Dutch Trading Company (NHM), was run by a director coming from Scotland, James Mavor, who had attracted attention in British Guiana, not only by his ruthless actions, but also by his misconduct against the women of the contract workers. On July 29 1902 matters have come to a crisis. The tormented and deeply humbled kantraki’s, by a confluence of events, fall into rage.