A letter to the Amsterdam Chamber asked that provisions sent from the Netherlands be of good quality. The historian notes that poor supplies had already made enslaved people sick. This is a year-only date normalized to 1 January for sorting; the source gives no day.
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What was the purpose of Governor Van Beuningen’s 1716 distribution of 80 people?
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The source says the governor distributed the 80 people among four Company plantations because demand for resale was low.
The Gelderland arrived in Curaçao in July 1716 with 146 enslaved people from Elmina.
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