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Fighters target plantation buildings and sugar works

📅 13 December 1679

Indigenous fighters burn a house and sugar works; the following day a provision ground is also attacked. These actions affect both colonial production and food supplies. The reports describe damage,...

Zorg en Hoop workers protest heavy tasks and low pay

📅 24 September 1884

On 24 September 1884, Hindostani laborers at the sugar plantation Zorg en Hoop protested severe tasks and low payments. A confrontation followed after an overseer judged the assigned work incomplete...

Janey Tetary is killed during the repression at Zorg en Hoop

📅 26 September 1884

On 26 September 1884, colonial forces fired on resisting workers at Zorg en Hoop. Janey Tetary, a Hindostani woman who helped mobilize other women in the resistance, was shot and killed along with six...

Arrest of Jumpa Raygaroo sparks confrontation at Alliance

📅 29 June 1902

On 29 June 1902, officials arrested Jumpa Raygaroo after workers had returned to Alliance from their protest. Fellow workers demanded his release, and a confrontation escalated around the official...