Authorities fail to sell Thico and put him to work under guard

The governor’s journal records Tula being brought into the fortress at Willemstad after his capture. His arrest did not erase the political meaning of the revolt: thousands had challenged plantation...

Colonial authorities executed Tula and other leaders after the uprising was defeated. The violence was intended to punish resistance and deter further revolt. Curaçao’s National Archives describe...

William I issued a decree prohibiting Dutch ships from being equipped for the slave trade and barring the sale of Africans at Dutch possessions on the Guinea coast. This addressed the trade, not...

The Treaty of London referred to the Dutch decree against the trade and committed the Netherlands to prohibit its subjects from participating. International restrictions on trafficking did not...