colonial authorities

Strikes reach the sugar districts and Port of Spain

The British Secretary of State for the Colonies told Parliament on 28 June that strikes spread northward to the sugar areas and Port of Spain on 22 June 1937, after unrest began in the oilfields....

Enslaved people rise in the 1750 Curaçao revolt

Colonial authorities revise the bond and caution rules

A second publication adjusts manumission costs and security

Curaçao removes fees for manumission procedures