Enslaved people rise in the 1750 Curaçao revolt

History slavery Dutch Antilles 📅 5 July 1750 📍 Curacao

The first known large-scale revolt of enslaved people on Curaçao began on 5 July 1750. Colonial repression followed. Later records and histories preserve only fragments of the rebels’ actions and goals; the revolt should be read as resistance to slavery, not merely as a disturbance to colonial order.

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