📅 18 Augustus 1795
The rebels recognize Tula as their leader; Bastiaan Carpatta and Toussaint are also named. The oath and shared rituals strengthen solidarity. Archival records describe the drink as evidence of...
📅 15 September 1795
The governor reports that a general search has failed to capture Tula and Carpatta. The authorities grow frustrated and fear that the leaders can be caught only by deception. The search shows both the...
📅 19 September 1795
Tula is denounced and arrested; Carpatta is captured the same day with the help of enslaved people on a plantation. The colonial government offers a priest in exchange for confessions and threatens...
📅 25 September 1795
The Council orders Tula, Carpatta, Mercier, Waccau, Juan Felix, and Louis to undergo severe torture. Hira stresses that confessions extracted under torture are unreliable and that the core of the...
📅 2 Oktober 1795
On 2 October, Tula and Carpatta are broken on the wheel and beheaded; their heads are displayed. Pedro Waccau and other fighters are also killed with extreme violence. The executions serve as a public...
