EVENT INFORMATION

1
Yanüari
1709

A poor maize harvest prompts a purchase of small corn

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📅 1 Yanüari 1709 📍 Kòrsou

The article cites a purchase of 1,000 schepel of small maize at one peso per schepel after a poor harvest. It provides the year but not the day. Grain procurement shows how colonial provisioning and food scarcity shaped enslaved people’s lives.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

Enslaved people dependent on rations

Company officials

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Curaçao colonial administration

WIC