EVENT INFORMATION

1
Yanüari
1711

Thousands of trees are cut at Porto Marie

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📅 1 Yanüari 1711 📍 Kòrsou

A footnote reports that Governor Jeremias van Collen ordered 3,600 trees cut at Porto Marie against the directors’ instructions. The source gives only a year. This action altered the landscape in which enslaved people lived and tried to move.

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

Personanan den e suseso aki

Enslaved people at Porto Marie

Jeremias van Collen

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

WIC

governor’s administration