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Curaçao colonial administration

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Curaçao colonial administration

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A poor maize harvest prompts a purchase of small corn

📅 1 January 1709

Drought begins a period of severe food scarcity

📅 1 January 1714

A maize shortage drives prices higher

📅 1 January 1716

Antonetta is manumitted for 100 pesos

📅 2 January 1722

Enslaved people rise in the 1750 Curaçao revolt

📅 5 July 1750

José Hilario Heringa, recorded as Joseph Rinkel, is manumitted

📅 29 December 1832

A newspaper notice announces Johannis Martis’s manumission

📅 29 March 1834

Petronia Letne is manumitted at age 24

📅 6 October 1835

Maria Louisa Rosentak’s manumission is ordered

📅 13 October 1835

Johannes Carel and Julianus Constantinus are manumitted

📅 16 July 1836

Maria Suncion Palmboom’s manumission requires guarantors

📅 12 September 1836

Pedro Paula is also recorded as Pieter Landbouwer

📅 22 December 1836

A “year and a day” restriction limits movement after manumission

📅 10 May 1837

Catharina is sent from Aruba to Curaçao

📅 8 July 1843

Catharina de Vasolle is named in a late-period manumission record

📅 30 December 1858

Regina Eleonora’s record includes her adult son

📅 12 April 1859

William Mont appears with his mother in a manumission record

📅 12 April 1859

Lena Dal’s record identifies her mother Martha

📅 12 April 1859

Elvira Leoncia is recorded as an infant

📅 8 November 1859

Mathilde’s manumission record preserves her mother’s name

📅 10 April 1860

Minerva Otrai is recorded with a spelling variant

📅 10 April 1860

Evelina Miremont’s entry records her age as two

📅 10 April 1860

José Pelegrin Vikkur is named with his mother

📅 10 April 1860

Josephina Humber’s manumission is recorded

📅 1 October 1860

Helena Steef’s record preserves her mother’s name

📅 3 April 1861

Maria Alejandra appears in the manumission register

📅 3 April 1861

Palmira’s manumission record preserves an alternate name

📅 3 April 1861

Louisa Palestina is named in a late-period manumission record

📅 3 April 1861

Ursula Rivero is recorded in a manumission index

📅 25 June 1861

Maria Eugenia Obispo and three children are recorded together

📅 9 April 1862

Elodia Beek appears in her mother’s manumission record

📅 9 April 1862

Ignatius Beek appears in a family manumission record

📅 9 April 1862

John Beek is named with his mother and siblings

📅 9 April 1862