EVENT INFORMATION

1
Yüli
1862

Dutch parliament begins debating the emancipation package

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📅 1 Yüli 1862 📍 Sürnam

Parliamentary records identify 1–6 July 1862 as the opening stretch of deliberations. The government tied abolition to slaveholder compensation, recruitment of contract labor, and ten years of state supervision over freed people. Debate centered heavily on preserving the plantation economy; the enslaved population whose freedom was at stake had little power over the terms.

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Dutch parliamentarians

enslaved Surinamese

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States General

Dutch colonial government