Anna Christina is freed under a will

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...

The two states agreed on enforcement measures against slave trading by their subjects, including legal penalties and cooperation to prevent the use of their flags to protect trafficking. Enforcement...