A governor’s journal reports that Thico, an enslaved man held by the state and assigned to the Aruba commander, said he would serve no longer and that he was free. The commander sent him in chains to Curaçao. The official account frames his refusal as disorder; read against that language, it preserves a direct act of self-assertion.
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Why is the 2 December 1795 entry important when read with the September entry?
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Explanation
The governor records that sale failed and Thico was assigned work under supervision.
After officials failed to sell Thico, they assigned him work under supervision in Curaçao.
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The December journal entry records this forced work under guard.