EVENT INFORMATION

8
Ougùstùs
1862

The Netherlands enacts an abolition law for the colony

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📅 8 Ougùstùs 1862 📍

The abolition law was enacted for Curaçao and Dependencies, with effect from 1 July 1863. It also provided compensation to enslavers, treating human beings as property for state payment purposes. National Archives registers show enslavers filed lists to claim compensation, while enslaved people themselves received no equivalent payment under the scheme.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Enslaved people of the Dutch Caribbean

enslavers

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Dutch Parliament

Kingdom of the Netherlands